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By this Discourse, this Impudent and filthy Trull, quite sham'd him out of any thoughts of Vertue; and therefore that he might the better please her, he replies,
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Because thou hast sham'd me before both the hosts 465
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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And sham'd him, stripping from his head and breast
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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We're sham'd if we're kind, we're blamed if we're coy.
The Ladies Case 1734
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I have not a Month to go: I am sham'd, ruin'd, and damn'd, I fear, for ever lost.
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The Witchcraft is a business that will not be sham'd, without plunging us into sore Plagues, and of long continuance.
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461: Where he fell flat, and sham'd his Worshipers:
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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Vespasian's worthless son "cleared Rome of what most sham'd him:" Domitian banished Epictetus, and the other philosophers.] and driven every laudable science into exile, that nought which was worthy and honest might anywhere be seen.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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“Would wish thus sham'd to lie: loud laugh'd the whole,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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3253: Whose ragges, sham'd gilded Armes, whose naked brest
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