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Really, hoft, that is a home thrull; I find it too true.
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His fecond leads them on; t Our hoft unitecfifenward pours,
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
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Upon this hehegan a converiatic» iaLatin with my hoft, enquiring who I was, and afking many abfurd queftions, and throwing out many filly furmifes concerning me.
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797
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The gray fkirts of miff are rolled around; thi - ther ftrode the king in his wrath - Diftant from the hoft he always lav, when battle burned within his foul.
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As the Hidden riling of winds; or difiant rolling of troubled feas, when Some dark ghoft, in wrath, heaves the billows over an ifie, the feat of mill, on the deep, for many dark - brown years: fo terrible is the found of the hoft, wide-moving over the field.
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But filence rolled back on the hoft: they knev. r the fhield of the king.
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Alone are the fteps of Cathmor, before them on the heath; he hung forward, with all his arms, on Morven's flying hoft.
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We learn thence, that ere the founda-* tions of the world were laid, part of the heavenly hoft rebelled againft God, and were driven out from his prefence under all the horrors of guilt and vengeance.
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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His terrible voice rofe on the wind, the hoft bend for - ward in the fight.
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V/lieu thro 'the blue fcrtniry of heav'n Thy powV approaches, all fhe wafteful hoft
The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings Kirk, Thomas, d. 1797, ill 1796
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