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  • The poem continues: "She it apply'd where I'm asham'd to tell,/ And acted what I could have done as well."

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  • The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other

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  • Rome could present, only apply'd my self to my Devoirs, according to the Will of my virtuous Mother: But the Gods left me not long in this happy State; for it was but little after, that the Death of this virtuous and honourable Parent put a Period to my Felicity; for then my Father resolv'd to marry me to his Bastard Son Valerius, which was such

    Exilius 2008

  • To Whom should I have apply'd for Redress when my Ears were hourly smitten by obscene Taunts aim'd at my Race?

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  • Sharpness, that the King's Prohibition might with more Justice be apply'd to Piso than to Shadrac; for that he came by the Order of the God of his Fathers.

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  • This Gentlewoman apply'd her self, by Industry, to salve those Sores which hard Fortune had made in her

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  • The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Sentiments twice unawares before the Altar of the Gods, which I apply'd according to the Dictates of Inclination, and so believ'd it to be a Mark that the Gods were favourable to, and approv'd of, this our Amour, and in the End would bless it with Success.

    Exilius 2008

  • This Gentlewoman apply'd her self, by Industry, to salve those Sores which hard Fortune had made in her

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  • I constantly apply'd all the perswasive Arguments I could think on, in Behalf of the Princess; all which serv'd but to confirm her

    Exilius 2008

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