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And nick'd and dock'd to these new modes of speech,
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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Thus he nick'd, at length, the warm and insufficient orifice; but he was made to find no breach impracticable, and mine, tho 'so often enter'd, was still far from wide enough to take him easily in.
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There is a certain Man of Distinction, who in his Time hath nick'd me out of a great deal of the Ready.
The Beggar's Opera 1728
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She rivetted a Linen-Draper's Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick'd of three Pieces of Cambric before he could look off.
The Beggar's Opera 1728
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_ There is a certain Man of Distinction, who in his Time hath nick'd me out of a great deal of the Ready.
The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708
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She rivetted a Linen-Draper's Eye so fast upon her, that he was nick'd of three Pieces of Cambric before he could look off.
The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708
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The itch of his aftedion ftiould not then Have nick'd his captainftiip; * at fuch a point.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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