clipt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Thou hast clipt my wings for thy pleasure.
From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar
Somewhere in the garden a little sardonic laugh was clipt to silence.
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
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 Biese, Alfred
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 Masefield, John
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 Lodge, Henry Cabot
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