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Which affirmation of his cleare vnmatchednefle in all manner of learning; I make in contempt of that naftie objection often thruft vpon me; that he that will iudge, muft know more then he of whom he iudgeth; for fo
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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When they have a pain in the ftomach, for example, in lieu of an operative medicine, they thruft an arrow pretty deeply down the throat, to excite a vomit, and throw up a matter of a greenifh colour, mixed with blood f.
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They have no fort of cloaths but a piece of the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waifts and a handful of long grafs, or three or four fmall green boughs full of leaves, thruft under their girdle to cover their nakednefs.
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Which made me thinke the Printers myght thruft in an Homilie of bis owen devife.
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Small as the path-way dull be feen. opening wide his tremendous jaws, endeavoured to devour them j but the Gods thruft into his mouth a fword, which pierced his under jaw.
Icelandic poetry 1797
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She thruft us out, and by them we are led Aftray from turning to whence we are fled.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795
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If you want to keep the good opinion of a great per - fon, whom you find to be a man of underftanding; do not thruft yourfelf upon him, but let him fend for you, when be wants you.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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But if you happen at any time to be thruft into their company, keep up in your behaviour to them the dig - nity of a man of. fpirit and worth, which is the only true greatnefs.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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Thinking, however, that his fervants might have placed it there, he again thruft it to the bottom.
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In feven days he renewed his odious propofals: I thruft him with contempt from me — he rulhed furioufly out of the apartment.
Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford]. 1791
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