Example Sentences

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Buffeted about the obstreperous ocean, Fleeted his life, if lagged his promotion.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

He had Towered, Fleeted, and put to the walls of Calais a number of the noblemen of England, and many of them for light causes.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.