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Republ'cans are these vile men call'd, through muck and mire have they crawl'd, ev'ry law have they transgress'd, and their countrymen, dispossess'd.
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I must confess I did my best, though knowing I transgress'd
The Cuckoo's Nest 1995
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I suppose, it will be answer'd, that the _Exportation_ of _Coin_ is provided against by _Statutes_; it is granted; and so is the Exportation of _Wooll_: Yet we are all sensible, the Law is transgress'd every Day in this Point: And it must be allowed, that Money may be as easily _smuggled_ as any Commodity whatsoever.
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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You had transgress'd, and therefore should have paid
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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For they, when mortals have transgress'd, or fail'd
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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So much transgress'd against thee, that thou burn'st
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832
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I have transgress'd --- but Oh! vouchsafe thy pity!
The Female Gamester A Tragedy Gorges Edmond Howard 1750
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Deaf to Heaven's voice, the social rites transgress'd;
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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1161: Neither had I transgress'd, nor thou with mee.
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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1327: (Or at the least ere they transgress'd) 1328: who thus began to plead:
The day of doom; or, A poetical description of the great and last judgment 1662
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