clipt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Thou hast clipt my wings for thy pleasure.
From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
My star is faded, your wings clipt; we have lost our noble rights....
From Psyche by Couperus, Louis
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 Manning, Anne
Whereat he laughed and clipt my hand, and swore I was a true soldier and a brave gentleman to boot.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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