clipt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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From pricking ears to mincing feet She was all tense with blood and quiver, You saw her clipt hide twitch and shiver Over her netted cords of veins.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
Here and there rises a line of pollard willows or clipt elms, and now and then a church spire.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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
"Bessie, you're reet clipt and heeled for sure," responded her companion.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
A verdant screen may be made in this way, of the wildest and most beautiful description, which should never be clipt, only pruned, allowing the loose branches to drop over those that are taken away.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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