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'Gainst those tempestuous swordstrokes wag'd the good lord of
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906
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Thus round the well-mann'd ship they wag'd the war:
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Have wag'd; our comrades, whom thou seek'st, are slain:
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Osr. The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary hor-ses,
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In those thriftier days Oaks fell not, hewn by thousands, to supply The bottomless demands of contest, wag'd For senatorial honors.
The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers William Hayley , William Cowper 1812
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Made fcruple of his praife; and wag'd with him Pieces of gold, 'gainft this which then he wore Upon his honour-d finger, to attain Pin fuit the place of 's bed, and win this ring By her's and mine adultery.
Works 1795
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He wag'd, and ten years rage produc'd a * farce As many rolling years he did employ.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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In mortal breaft, fure Honour never wag'd So dire a war, nor Love more fiercely rag'd:
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With what confufion muft they appear at the great Audit, who can give no other account of their receipts, but that they confum'd them upon their lufts, wag'd war againft God with his own treafure, and been as well thieves as rebels?
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3616: The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary hor-ses,
The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1623 First Folio) 1603
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