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  • View image of page that you are willing to be number'd with the outcasts, abandoned and persecuted, for his name's sake; to have your name even a

    Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,Febrary 14, 1857 2008

  • But then the Joy which took Possession of their Souls is not to be express'd, nor the interchangeable Caresses between him and his dear Sister not to be number'd, which continu'd till the Consideration of making their Father Partaker of this vast Felicity, made 'em descend to his Apartment, where their mutual Satisfactions were such, as no Hand can delineate, therefore I leave the Reader to imagine.

    Exilius 2008

  • _ -- From the most able to him that can but spell; -- there you are number'd.

    The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

  • And in this Order he saw other Essences also, like his own which had necessarily been heretofore, then were dissolv'd, and afterwards necessarily existed together with himself; and that they were so many as could not he number'd, if we might call them _many_; or that they were all one, if we might call them _one_.

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

  • And the shells were coming in so thick I thought my number'd turn up any time.

    One Man's Initiation—1917 John Dos Passos 1933

  • It has pleased Mr. Haygarthe of late to declare that his life is nigh at an end; and indeed he affects a conviction that his days are number'd.

    Birds of Prey 1875

  • Her towers shall fall, the number'd winters flown,

    The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847

  • With all their shores, were number'd in his train.

    The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

  • One other possible interpretation of this sentence has occurred to me, just barely worth mentioning; -- that the 'twinn'd stones' are the _augrim_ stones upon the number'd beech, that is, the astronomical tables of beech-wood.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Fall'n with the brave, e'er number'd with the slain —

    On the Death of Lieutenant-Colonel Buller, Killed in Flanders in 1795 1796

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