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"I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter them any farther."

John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011

"I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter them any farther."

John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011

Some strain'd the ropes that bind the loosen'd sails.

Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

Flung the rude stone, and strain'd the stubborn bow.

Progress of Society 2006

Some strain'd the ropes that bind the loosen'd sails.

Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

The quality of mercy is strain'd in Texas where they replaced blind justice with blind vengance under Bush long ago.

Archive 2006-05-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

The milky treasure, strain'd thro 'filtering lawn,

A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss

Hair Sieve: To a Pint of Juice put a Pound and a half of Sugar sifted; but first boil the Juice after it is strain'd, and then shake in your Sugar: Let it scald 'till the Sugar is melted; then put it in little Pots in a Stove, and turn it as other Paste.

Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

Spinage, stamp'd and strain'd; set it all over the Fire, and let it just boil; and when you send it up, put the slic'd Kernels on the

Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

Th 'incumbent hero wrench'd, and pull'd, and strain'd;

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil