sway'd

Sing you the chiefs that sway'd th 'Ausonian land,

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

The stem sway'd earthward with its blossom, broken.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various

The Woman was sent for to Court to make Puddings for King _John_, who then sway'd the Scepter; and gain'd such Favour, that she was the making of her whole Family.

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

An 'he sway'd all his limbs, an' he nodded his head,

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

I have sway'd the rushing elements -- but still and strong is Death

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 Various

To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd

At a Solemn Musick 1919

Down I sway'd (Billy letting out the rope very steady), and at last swung myself inward to the ledge, gain'd a footing, and took a glance round before slipping off the rope.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

To their great LORD, Whose love their motion sway'd

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd

At a Solemn Music 1875

At all times, perhaps, the central point in any nation, and that whence it is itself really sway'd the most, and whence it sways others, is its national literature, especially its archetypal poems.

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855