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With our trumpet and spear for the Doges, their mute,
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 Various
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Your flocks 'good health; then each, discreetly mute,
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse 54 BC-19 BC Tibullus
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And though they were neither grave, sullen, nor mute,
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QUOTATION: He playd an ancient ditty long since mute,
Quotations 1919
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And, while the music breathed what else were mute,
Watchers of the Sky Alfred Noyes 1919
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Where hopes stir not, and white, wronged lips are mute,
Path Flower and Other Verses Olive Tilford Dargan 1918
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For where husks are heaped the highest, working swiftly, hushed and mute,
Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Read the song I enclose; though my lips must be mute,
Three Women Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887
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And when the song is failing, or the drums a moment mute,
India's Love Lyrics Laurence Hope 1884
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You whispered low, Illileo -- so low the leaves were mute,
Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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