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  • I was invited, methoughts, to the Dissection of a _Beaus Head_ and of a

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Conduct methoughts I sail'd prosperously on without the least Rub to my suppos'd Happiness; 'tis true I was at a constant Charge of Presents,

    Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696

  • These things put me in mind of the Prophet Ezekiel, and methoughts I heard the same

    The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

  • After a little Dizziness, and confused Hurry of Thought, which a Man often meets with in a Dream, methoughts the Hall was alarm'd, the Doors flew open, and there entered half a dozen of the most hideous Phantoms that I had ever seen (even in a Dream) before that Time.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • After a little dizziness, and confused hurry of thought, which a man often meets with in a dream, methoughts the hall was alarmed, the doors flew open, and there entered half a dozen of the most hideous phantoms that I had ever seen, even in a dream, before that time.

    Essays and Tales Joseph Addison 1695

  • Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched. "

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Priapus appear'd to me, and told me, he had lately brought into my ship Encolpius that I sought for ": Tryphœna was startl'd," And you'd swear we slept together, "reply'd she," for methoughts the image of Neptune having struck his trident thrice against the Bajœ, told me that in Lycas 'ship I shou'd meet my Gito. "

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

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