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  • Chastity; which she sent into the Hundreds of Drury, not doubting but to make a good return from thence: Here it was greatly lik'd, and highly prais'd, and gladly they would have bought, but had not wherewith to purchase so rich an Imbellishment.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This Discourse I heard with seeming Tranquility, and prais'd the young I ady, wishing she might be so sensible of his Merit, as to make him speedily happy.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Some blam'd the Boldness of that Proceeding, saying she might have gone out quietly and privately: Others prais'd the generous open Way she had taken.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Chastity; which she sent into the Hundreds of Drury, not doubting but to make a good return from thence: Here it was greatly lik'd, and highly prais'd, and gladly they would have bought, but had not wherewith to purchase so rich an Imbellishment.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This Discourse I heard with seeming Tranquility, and prais'd the young I ady, wishing she might be so sensible of his Merit, as to make him speedily happy.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Join'd with the Living, and Death's Victor prais'd.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • It then also helpfully provides the instance: "Sion's songs, to all true tasts excelling Where God is prais'd aright."

    Good Tast in Dictionaries . . . Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

  • And they prais'd him to his face with their courtly foreign grace;

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • A naked youth that had lost his cloaths, as strongly echo'd back to me, 'Gito, Gito': The boys, believing me mad, ridicul'd me with their mimikry: But the other was attended with a great concourse of people, that with an awful admiration prais'd the youth:

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Subject enjoy'd by his wise Management: And they carried this Matter to such a ridiculous Height, that there was not a Vice or a Folly, that either he or any of his Family were remarkable for, but they were prais'd for the contrary Vertues and Accomplishments.

    A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt

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