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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
live .
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Examples
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The young woman who returnd from Paris, and who liv'd with Mrs Palmer, calld on sunday, she has heard a few days past from Mrs Palmer, who is very well.
Letter 169 2009
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Sir, OF the melancholy Fate of the Horse stung to Death by Bees I have repeatedly heard: but Mr. Bloomfield in speaking of a distant Transaction has mistaken the part of the Village in which the Butcher liv'd.
Letter 202 2009
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Have liv'd and struggl'd — starv'd and triumph'd here!
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Without this awareness and unity with one's love, or soul, the angry mob will "die for goodness, who have liv'd for crime."
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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There ain't but one thing Brownie done wrong, I liv'd that ole sportin 'life too long
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Body and Souls Now this silly Creature never knew directly where this her Gallant liv'd.
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I remain'd at Quiet, we not thinking of any-body; nor any-body thinking of us: And thus we liv'd alone (at least in our Actions) in the midst of
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As to myself, I was like a Wild Ass in a Forest, and liv'd alone in the midst of this great Multitude, even the great and populous City of
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But to shorten my Story, by such time as I had liv'd a Wife about Seven Years, my Father dy'd, and my Husband broke, by which I was reduc'd to a low Ebb of Fortune; and he being a Man of no Family, had no
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Person was truly handsome; and with Part of her Fortune he plac'd himself in the Army, bestow'd another Part in furnishing her a House, and so liv'd very decently; and notwithstanding her indifferent Person, he had Children by her, though they did not live long.
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