: "I _lit_ my pipe with the paper."--_Addison_.
"While he whom learning, habits, all prevent,
Is largely _mulct_ for each impediment."--_Crabbe, Bor._, p. 102.
"And then the chapel--night and morn to pray,
Or _mulct_ and threaten'd if he kept away."--_Ib._, p. 162.
"A small space is formed, in which the breath is _pent_ up."--_Gardiner's
Music of Nature_, p. 493. "_Pen_, when it means to write, is always
regular. Boyle has _penned_ in the sense of confined."--_Churchill's
Gram._, p. 261. "So far as it was now _pled_."--ANDERSON: _Annals of the
Bible_, p. 25. "_Rapped_ with admiration."--HOOKER: _Joh. Dict._ "And being
_rapt_ with the love of his beauty."--_Id., ib._ "And _rapt_ in secret
studies."--SHAK.: _ib._ "I'm _rapt_ with joy."--ADDISON: _ib._ "_Roast_
with fire."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Exod._, xii, 8 and 9. "_Roasted_ with
fire."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: _Exod._, xii, 8 and 9. "Upon them hath the light
_shined_."--_Isaiah_, ix, 2. "The earth _shined_ with his
glory."--_Ezekiel_, xliii, 2. "After that he had _showed_
wonders."--_Acts_, vii, 36. "Those things which God before had
_showed_."--_Acts_, iii, 18. "As shall be _shewed_ in Syntax."--_Johnson's
Gram. Com._, p. 28. "I have _shown_ you, that the _two first_ may be
dismissed."--_Cobbett's E. Gram._, 10. "And in this struggle were _sowed_
the seeds of the revolution."--_Everett's Address_, p. 16. "Your favour
_showed_ to the performance, has given me boldness."--_Jenks's Prayers,
Ded_. "Yea, so have I _strived_ to preach the gospel."--_Rom._, xv, 20.
"Art thou, like the adder, _waxen_ deaf?"--_Shakspeare. "Hamstring'd_
behind, unhappy Gyges died."--_Dryden_. "In Syracusa was I born and
_wed_."--_Shakspeare_. "And thou art _wedded_ to calamity."--_Id._ "I saw
thee first, and _wedded_ thee."--_Milton_. "Sprung the rank weed, and
_thrived_ with large increase."--_Pope_. "Some errors never would have
_thriven_, had it not been for learned refutation."--_Book of Thoughts_, p.
34. "Under your care they have _thriven_."--_Junius_, p. 5. "Fixed by being
rolled closely, compacted, _knitted_."--_Dr. Murray's Hist._, Vol. i, p.
374. "With kind converse and skill has _weaved_."--_Prior_. "Though I shall
be _wetted_ to the skin."--_Sandford and Merton_, p. 64. "I _speeded_
hither with the very extremest inch of possibility."--_Shakspeare_. "And
pure grief _shore_ his old thread in twain."--_Id._ "And must I ravel out
my _weaved-up_ follies?"--_Id., Rich. II_. "Tells ho
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