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I hir'd of him a house at fifteen pounds per an. much better than this I live in at 40 besides taxes and I know, and still know that I could retrench in expenses and shake off full two thirds of the people who come here to look down my throat.

Letter 265 2009

Here I submitted myself to be hir'd for a Marmer, where I used my utmost

Exilius 2008

For yon same hir'd widifu's will prove themselves men. '

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

Eumolpus was glad to serve us, and swore by all that's sacred, he was privy to no design against us; and that he had very innocently brought us hither, for no other end, than for our company, having hir'd the vessel before he was acquainted with us: "But what designs on your lives are here?" added he, "Or have we a pyrate Hannibal on board?"

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

So he took what Substance he had, and with part of it he hir'd a Ship to convey him thither, the rest he distributed among the poor people, and took his leave of his Friend

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

The'r but young hir'd widifu's wi 'belted plaids.'

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

'TIS a great Misfortune, that most of our Travellers, who go to this vast Continent in America, are Persons of the meaner Sort, and generally of a very slender Education; who being hir'd by the Merchants, to trade amongst the Indians, in which Voyages they often spend several Years, are yet, at their Return, uncapable of giving any reasonable Account of

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

Not young Lawyers in hir'd Robes and Plumes at a Masquerade could be less what they would seem, or more aukwardly personate the Characters they belong'd to.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

While the hir'd slave, the fiend of wrath, design'd

Ainsi va le Monde 1806

While the hir'd slave, the fiend of wrath, design'd

Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson 1791