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Examples
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When wolves, with hunger pin'd, howl at her brightness.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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Stolen from his cheek, he droop'd, and pin'd and pin'd;
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 William Wordsworth 1810
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Since my young lady's going into France, Sir; the fool hath much pin'd away.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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For my part, I now pin'd for more solid food, and promis'd tacitly to myself that I would not be put off much longer with this foolery from woman to woman, if Mrs. Brown did not soon provide me with the essential specific.
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That I languish'd and pin'd till I granted the rest.
The Beggar's Opera 1728
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That I languish'd and pin'd till I granted the rest.
The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708
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Virtue in her own Shape how lovely I saw, and pin'd
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Do good, be pin'd, -- be deedless good, disgrac'd;
Hero and Leander and Other Poems George Chapman 1578
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Jim eclipse the day. with inward griefe he pin'd, atments to his griefs he join'd, c'd hb office to mankind. birth of time/said he, 'I've bornu ll toil, without return: ther manage, if he dare,, and mount the burning car;, let Jove his fortune try,
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Tell him, O tell him, how my panting breast Is scorch'd with flames, and how my soul is pin'd;
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