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Those (reply'd I) who have once swerv'd from the Faith they profess, ought always to be suspected; you have offer'd your Vows to Mrs. Lowlandand so stopt with a stoln Sigh.
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Words, stoln Sighs, suppress'd Tears, that the meerest Fresh − man in Love's
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Words, stoln Sighs, suppress'd Tears, that the meerest Fresh − man in Love's
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Those (reply'd I) who have once swerv'd from the Faith they profess, ought always to be suspected; you have offer'd your Vows to Mrs. Lowlandand so stopt with a stoln Sigh.
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These know how, very subtlely, many times, to fatten their carkasses, with meat and drink out of the Mistresses Cellars and Butteries; keeping alwaies a fair correspondence with the theevish Maids, which know many tricks and waies how to convey it unto them; and scold and brawl against those whose stoln meat and drink they thus idly and basely convey away.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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And on it, stoln aside, bestows the Hours of Play;
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Sir Harry has stoln all your Songs, and tells the Story of the 5th of _November_ to Perfection.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Upon talking with him afterwards, he found that he could speak readily in three or four Languages, and learned upon farther Examination that he had been stoln away when he was a Child by a Gypsie, and had rambled ever since with a Gang of those Strollers up and down several Parts of _Europe_.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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Contempt, could divert my self with her Airs for half an Hour, and afterwards take up my _Plutarch_ with great Tranquillity of Mind; but was a little vexed to find that in less than a Month she had considerably stoln upon my Time, so that I resolved to look at her no more.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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Jesuit in Chains — but see, Ned Blunt is stoln out after the
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