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Examples
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He purs'd up his mouth and look'd us slowly up and down.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Just like a corpse, and purs'd with wrinkles round,
Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808
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The housekeeper, and the old gentleman who sat next to Harley, were now observed to be fast asleep, at which the lady, who had been at such pains to entertain them, muttered some words of displeasure, and, upon the officer's whispering to smoke the old put, both she and her husband purs'd up their mouths into a contemptuous smile.
The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1788
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In their free courses check'd, are pent and purs'd As 'twere within a bladder, stretching then And struggling for expansion, they burst forth With crack so fierce as sets the air on fire.
Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others] 1812
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