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The lone thrush's singing prompts her to daydream of remembered "Green pastures ... in the midst of the dale,/Down which she [had] so often ... tripp'd with her pail" (9-10).
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Street as you turn into Logic Lane: and I was ten yards from the front door, and running my fastest, when suddenly I tripp'd and fell headlong.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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She tripp'd and laugh'd, too pretty much to stand.
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Down which she so often has tripp'd with her pail; 10
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Ah -- Pallas tripp'd my footsteps; she attends 975
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832
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(Spoken) -- "In gude truth," says a brawney Scotchman, "I'se ne'er see'd sic bonny work in a 'my liefe -- there's nae walking up the streets without being knock'd doon, and nae walking doon the streets without being tripp'd up."
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Down which she so often has tripp'd with her pail,
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 William Wordsworth 1810
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And tripp'd up his heels, lest he should be knock'd down.
Song on the New Affair of Copenhagen (not Lord Nelson's) 1808
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Some lightly tripp'd, to make their meaning plain:
May Day with the Muses Robert Bloomfield 1794
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The Friend tripp'd lightly in, and laughing said, "I come."
Tales George Crabbe 1793
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