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  • Cossaque_, to the thrice-folded piece of white linen on which he is seated in _cool_ repose; thence by his cable chain, bearing seals as large as a warming-pan, and a key like an anchor; then a little higher to the figured waistcoat of early British manufacture, and the sack-shapened coat, up to the narrow brim sugar-loaf hat on his head, -- where can be found his equal?

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 Various

  • And it has a future to be shapened, in part, at least!

    Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924

  • Each man seemed the personification of savage health and vigour, smoothed and shapened in accordance with the prejudices of civilised life.

    Birds of Prey 1875

  • It indeed produceth a monster, an ill-shapened thing, a mole, a mouse, a pig, all which are things unclean, and an abomination to the Lord.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • If the shapened stake sticking out of the steering wheel is relocated to the front passenger side, how then will the driver behave?

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

  • The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened.

    EveryJoe 2009

  • The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened.

    EveryJoe 2009

  • Then, alas! my friend, said Yorick, let me tell you, that ’tis so bruised and mis-shapened with the blows which ... and ..., and some others have so unhandsomely given me in the dark, that I might say with Sancho Panca, that should I recover, and ‘Mitres thereupon be suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail, not one of them would fit it.’ —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Then, alas! my friend, said Yorick, let me tell you, that ’tis so bruised and mis-shapened with the blows which ... and ..., and some others have so unhandsomely given me in the dark, that I might say with Sancho Panca, that should I recover, and ‘Mitres thereupon be suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail, not one of them would fit it.’ —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Durtal, as he turned the pages, came on such lamentable and humble prayers as these: "Thou who hast shapened me in my mother's womb, let me not perish ....

    The Cathedral 1877

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