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Our Mirth is all pall'd, and our Measures all crost;
Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid
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_ -- Could the loose, the abandon'd, look in on this happy mansion, how would their sensual appetites be pall'd!
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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Mrs. Bracegirdle as "The Indian Queen" been better employ'd in giving the Auditor Variety, the only Temptation to a pall'd Appetite; and Variety is only to be given by Industry: But Industry will always be lame when the Actor has Reason to be discontented.
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For that pall'd taste, and that unhallow'd eye; --
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Here pampers his foul frame, till the pall'd sense
Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808
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But, pall'd with vice, he breaks his former chain,
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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She no sooner perceiv'd how easy it would be to supplant her Sister, but she formed the Design, and _Zeokinizul_ who began to be pall'd with the long Enjoyment of so indifferent a Mistress, was easily inclin'd to vary the Object of his Love.
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742
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Hitherto the main matter which pall'd all my Joys, was the impossibility of a Restoration, which now was much lessen'd by the concurrence of Domestick Evils, and the
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696
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Thhy mfetft all they touch; I cannot think Of tafting any thing a fool has pall'd.
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II. vii.88 (170,2) thy pall'd fortunes] _Palled_, is vapid, past its time of excellence; _palled_ wine, is wine that has lost its original spriteliness.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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