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Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations -- as far as --
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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After he came into the cabin again, I tax'd him with what he had been at.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
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Whoever had not an Estate in Land of an Hundred _Spasma_'s was also tax'd Ten _Spasma_'s a Year, to be paid out of their Day Labour.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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_ Who (if thou ever lov'dst me) tax'd me with a Crime so foul, as I abhor to hear it only named?
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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After he came into the cabin again, I tax'd him with what he had been at.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910
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But it tax'd all his skill to mak it run straight.
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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He tax'd his tongue for words, which were not granted
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Washington Irving 1821
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He tax'd his tongue for words, which were not granted,
Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Well cork'd, well flavour'd, and well tax'd, that came
May Day with the Muses Robert Bloomfield 1794
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I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has tax'd me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, of immorality; and retract them.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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