spar'd

I have lately been sadly troubled with the Rhumatism and other complaints, I have not been right well since the beginning of August, — We are happy to hear that your affectionate pertner was spar'd for your future comfort, and that of your children, to whom we wish to be mentiond with Love and good wishes

Letter 16 2009

Who spar'd La Valette? who promoted him, Stain'd with the deep die of nobility?

Newspapers 2007

Elgin's removal of the marbles provoked immediate outrage, not least from Lord Byron, who castigated him in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage of 1812 as "the last, the worst, dull spoiler" who "rive [d] what Goth, and Turk, and Time hath spar'd."

Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

Fortune should frustrate that Resolution, (if the Gods spar'd my Life) for if good, his Presence would make it double; if bad, his wise Conversation would diminish its Disagreements.

Exilius 2008

-- _I_ am not mistress of a stile like _his_, or your Ladyship would have been spar'd numberless tedious moments.

Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

The sentries slew, nor spar'd their slumb'ring lord,

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

There was no Man like him for Invention and Contrivance: And then for Execution, he spar'd no Labour and Pains to compass his magnanimous Designs.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

'How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

And truly there's no cost spar'd for the having very rich laces.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Dey was in de nussery, an 'I was a rale smart cotton-picker, and couldn't be spar'd to nuss chillen, nohow.'

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various