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Examples
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Brandy all the way, and then work'd off the fumes by songs of a description which were new to me, so that you see that the school of poetry has many stages.
Letter 106 2009
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It work'd effectually at sensibility's pump, and did me a deal of good, and at some future lucky hour I will certainly copy it for you.
Letter 234 2009
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He has work'd indefatigably at his job [1] while here, but found that he could not perform the labour so fast as he expected.
Letter 260 2009
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Pride, because in this Action they work'd their own Disgrace.
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The Hugonot work'd a curious fine Purse, and begg'd Leave of the Abbess to present it to her Patron the Cavalier.
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Perhaps if Miss Meindertsma were to have return'd to my Time and work'd the Shuttle in her own Slow Way, such that her hands were not bleeding at the End of a Day, she would have receiv'd a few good Knocks, sufficient to compleat her Education in the Value of Time.
Ms. Eythorsdottir made a "chandelier" of "beads of glucose that clung to twine and caught the natural light" designed to disintegrate in 5 months. Ann Althouse 2008
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A spot of hard work'd do me good and be a nice change from sitting on my duff in an office.
The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990
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Maybe your work'd be runnin 'bad and you couldn't keep it up good.
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Bung-hole, and have a reserve in a small Cask to fill it up, and don't put any of the Drink which will be under the Yeast after it is work'd over into your Vessels, but put it by itself in another Cask, for it will not be so good as your other in the Cask.
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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Drink is already Foxed in the Fat or Tun, new Hops should be put in and work'd with it, and they will greatly fetch it again into a right Order; but then such Drink should be carefully taken clear off from its gross nasty Lee, which being mostly Tainted, would otherwise lye in the Barrel, corrupt and make it worse.
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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