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Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast. —
Ulysses 2003
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So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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For now and then in the gyved one's trance a serene happy light born of some wandering reminiscence or dream would diffuse itself over his face, and then wane away only anew to return.
Billy Budd 1924
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"Prithee, good Motley," he questioned, "what should bring so rare a Fool to lie in dungeon fettered and gyved along of innocent rogues and roguish robber?"
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Eva Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, un-gartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appears before her teacher.
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He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904
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Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appeared before her teacher.
Little Citizens Myra Kelly 1893
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They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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See you how cunningly all her limbs are gyved, and chained to the iron bolts of the bed?
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011