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For, seeing my master dressing to go to church; and his chariot getting ready, I went to my closet, and I writ,
Pamela 2006
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I could never see a distant hill, but I longed to reach its summit to see what was on the other side; and had I been more conversant with holy writ,
Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.
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QUOTATION: Manner is all in all, whateer is writ,
Quotations 1919
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QUOTATION: The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Quotations Omar Khayyam 1919
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There is a thing that they forget, so let it here be writ,
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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Noa! but if that Grand Book, -- th 'Grandest Book ivver writ,
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Scarce with my taste and fancy suits, oh! had it but in French been writ,
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Themselves they studied; as they lived, they writ,
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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"As it is a most equitable rule," says he, in his preamble to this writ,
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743
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For, seeing my master dressing to go to church; and his chariot getting ready, I went to my closet, and I writ,
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725
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