The arrows flitted and clipt amongst us like a flight of bats!
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Amongst men he droops like a wild-born falcon with clipt wing.
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Also the two messengers kissed either other and clipt close, and after, departed.
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So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.
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In the house it may be let range at will after the wings are clipt.
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He clipt my arm suddenly, putting the value of an oath into his gripping of it.
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She passed within the lodge, and threw her arms about his neck, clipt him and kissed him.
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In some it is more, in others it is less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard.
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In some it is more, in others it in less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard.
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Whereat he laughed and clipt my hand, and swore I was a true soldier and a brave gentleman to boot.
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Saltbush Bill is again droving his sheep when he happens "on Take 'Em Down, the station of Rooster Hall." Rooster Hall is a follower of cockfighting and Bill challenges him to a contest: his Australian bird against Hall's, a "clipt and a shaven cock, the pride of his English Game". But Bill has a trick up his sleeve and wins the contest by forfeit.
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During the debates on the Recoinage Act, in 1695–6, Grascome was thought to have published An Account of the Proceedings in the House of Commons in relation to the Recoining the Clipt Money and Falling the Price of Guineas; Brunton writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography considers that the author may have been in fact Thomas Wagstaffe, with Grascome doing the legwork. Criticising the House of Commons of the time, which had pushed through the Great Recoinage of 1696, the author argued for a public record of the votes of Members of Parliament. Grascombe had done private research on placemen among them, listing over 100, since the 1692–3 session. The pamphlet contravened parliamentary privilege by giving a division list for the Recoinage Act.
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By 1714 he had begun working with Henry Wise, with whom he later shared the title of Chief Gardener for the royal gardens (Strong, 1992, 39). Bridgeman married Sarah Mist in 1717. An early proponent of a less-structured garden design, Bridgeman was a pioneer in the landscape style that spread throughout much of Europe in the 18th century and came to be known as the jardin anglaisEnglish Landscape Gardens (Jellicoe, et al., 1986, p. 72). A contemporary of Bridgeman's, Horace Walpole, describing his colleague's design style in his essay On Modern Gardening, wrote: ‘though he still adhered much to strait walks with high clipt hedges, they were only his great lines; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and with loose groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges’ (Amherst, 1896, p. 249). Bridgeman’s approach to landscaping can be summarised in three terms: formal, transitional and progressive.
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