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Examples
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Can in his swadling bands controul the damned crew.
On the Morning of Christs Nativity John Milton 1921
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Can in his swadling bands controul the damnèd crew.
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Lord Treasurer can tell, that all the money designed for next summer's guards must, of necessity, be applyed to the next year's cradles and swadling-cloths.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Here's my lord treasurer can tell, that all the money designed for next summer's guards must, of necessity, be applyed to the next year's cradles and swadling-cloths.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swadling band for it.
Drupal learnthebibleca 2010
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_ You n'er said truer, I must confess I did a little favour you, and with some labour might have been perswaded, but when I found I must be hourly troubled, with making broths, and dawbing your decayes with swadling, and with stitching up your ruines, for the world so reports.
Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600
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Hark you, Guildenstern; — and you too; — at each ear a hearer: that great baby, you see there, is not yet out of his swadling-clouts.
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And, Sir, when yie war in your swadling-cloutes, Chryst Jesus 'rang [22] friely in this land in spyt of all his enemies. "'
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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