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It took the HUAC to propt me to look up the term in my 1944 encyclopaedia.
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When hunger sated was, I elbow-propt fell back upon
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Barmecide and Abu Nowas, into the desert, where they fell in with an old man, propt against his ass.
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Meanwhile, Miriam returned forthright to her private apartment, where she found the one-eyed Wazir seated, elbow-propt upon a cushion stuffed with ostrich-down; but he was ashamed to put forth his hand to her or to bespeak her.
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As of old, Sparta and Athens could not coalesce, and therefore after weakening one another they ill - resisted Philip, and were overpowered by Alexander armed from Macedonia and Thrace, and under-propt by gold from Asia; so now the little States --
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With folded arms, propt back and outstretched knees;
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Was timmer-propt for thrawin ': [against leaning over]
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Brontë's study, and behind it the kitchen, where the sisters read with their books propt on the table before them while they worked, and where
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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It is still vigorous, tho carefully propt up and mounded around, and its aged trunk is sheathed with lead.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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As sooin as they fun it aght they varry quitely tuk th 'horse aght o'th' shafts an 'turned it into a field cloise by, an' lifted th 'gate off th' hinges an 'propt it up between th' shafts asteead o'th 'horse, an' hung th 'harness ovver it; then they teed th' appron strings fast soa as he could'nt get off his seeat, an 'waited wol he wakkened agean.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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