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His Lands were mortgaged, his Houses decay'd, his Debts increased, his Credit diminished, Duns attack'd him in every Quarter, Writs and Bayliffs follow'd him, Vexations of all Sorts met and overtook him: Nevertheless, her Riot, Vanity, and chargeable
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My verse alone had all thy gentle grace; But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick Muse doth give another place.
The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984
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My verse alone had all thy gentle grace; But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick Muse doth give another place.
the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984
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Meeting was old, and decay'd and rotten, and in danger of falling on the Heads of the People in the Street, and say it in Print too, would this tend to induce in the Minds of the People, that a Steeple was not necessary to a Meeting House, and that the House might as well be turned topsy turvy, and the steeple struck down into the Earth.
John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767 1961
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_ Madam, whether you will Excuse or Blame my Love, the Author of this rash Proceeding depends upon your Pleasure, as also the Life of your Admirer; your sparkling Eyes speak a Heart susceptible of Love; your Vivacity a Soul too delicate to admit the Embraces of decay'd
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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Whose lives although decay'd, yet loves decayëd never.
Friendship Hugh Black
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Here I continued for some time: and tho I say't, behav'd my self so well, that I was prefer'd to the best Gentlemen; for tho, my Natural Beauty had been much decay'd, yet I by Art so patch'd it up again, that I by my good
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A very true, and as sad an Account of Things; and what inhances our Misery is, that _France_ thrives by thus draining our vital Blood from us, as the Physicians in old _Rome_, made their decay'd Patients sustain themselves, by sucking the streaming Veins of their poor
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When my strength is decay'd and my locks worn gray.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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When decay'd, may he mingle his dust with your own. 'p. 3.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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