clipt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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In this style laurel and box-hedges were clipt, and 210marble statues placed against them, 'to break the uniformity of the dark green with pleasant silhouettes.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
She passed within the lodge, and threw her arms about his neck, clipt him and kissed him.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
The Gate off its Hinges; the Stone Balls of the Pillars overthrowne, the great Bell stolen, the clipt Junipers grubbed up, the Sun-diall broken!
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
And Keir, though his wings were now so happily clipt, still held his position as a traveller who had seen and noted much in his former wanderings.
From Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth
Low the ground, Well-nigh by waters clipt, a savage haunt With briar and bramble thick, and 'Thorny Isle' For that cause named.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
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