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- adverb archaic Contraction of
upon it .
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Examples
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Vicus I took it very constructively, reflected upon't, and am grateful to you.
Old Age and Good Living Gordie 2009
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/It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,/A brother's murder. '
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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I dan't pass upon't, if I do throw away a day with you.
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But pox upon't 'twas but a dream, and so I lay without her.
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Come, let's walk the exchange, and see which of us can take up money: You'll be satisfied then, this iron has credit upon't; a pretty thing, is it not!
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Is a vice-roy in the street, and no man stands more upon't that he is the king's officer.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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It is a dream, I own it, but it is so agreable one to me that nothing but reality could be compared to the pleasure I feel: let me therefore insist a little more upon't and travel with my Letter, we are gone!
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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It is a dream, I own it, but it is so agreable one to me that nothing but reality could be compared to the pleasure I feel: let me therefore insist a little more upon't and travel with my Letter, we are gone!
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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He was so near (as he thought at least) marrying Mrs. Gerherd that anybody might have got his whole estate in wagers upon't that would have ventured but a reasonable proportion of their own.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901
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Fye upon't I shall grow too good now, I am taking care to know how your worship slept to-night; better I hope than you did the last.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901
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