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And to be sure he will make the story as plausible for himself as he may; but therefore it was that I have before so particularly quoted and bound him up with his own words as fast as such a Proteus could be pinion'd.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Before I could scramble up, one pair of hands was screw'd about my neck, another at my heels, and in a trice there we were pinion'd.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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And praise their heaven, though pinion'd down to earth!
Poetical Works Charles Churchill 1747
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What most try'd her Patience, was, that during the Time of their little Journey, she could not be admitted to speak to the Count, who being bound and pinion'd, was put into the Litter with the dead Body of the Chevalier; and she mounted behind one of the Servants, was oblig'd to ride, encompass'd by a Crowd of People, who seem'd
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The other two who I had kept till now, in my Bower, pinion'd; but upon the Captain's Motion, had now releas'd.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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But in Order to execute it with more Art, and secure of Success, I told him, we must divide the Prisoners, and that he should go and take Atkins and two more of the worst of them, and send them pinion'd to the Cave where the others lay: This was committed to Friday and the two Men who came on Shore with the Captain.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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The other I order'd to my Bower, as I call'd it, of which I have given a full Description; and as it was fenc'd in, and they pinion'd, the Place was secure enough, considering they were upon their Behaviour.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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But seized, and pinion'd brought to court the knight, 60
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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