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But I'm strenuously opposed to jumping down his throat for what I suspect is a little fault proceeding upon distemper rather than a capital crime, chew'd, swallow'd and digested.
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But I'm strenuously opposed to jumping down his throat for what I suspect is a little fault proceeding upon distemper rather than a capital crime, chew'd, swallow'd and digested.
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Contempt of human Greatness; all which I swallow'd as Draughts of rich
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To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night,
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They swallow'd; whom their fierce irruption spar'd,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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-- I had scarce swallow'd it when he left me, as he said, to speak to the drivers.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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Great gobbets swallow'd in; thenceforth soon had he
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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But mony sparkling stars are swallow'd up by night;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Of the man well-beloved the body he swallow'd; 2080
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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From foe-bites of the body; the flame swallow'd all,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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