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And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, even as a pretty little Cornish chough.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Whereas Elegance consists in the compt, well pruned and succinct Turn of a Subject.
From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.
Herodotus writeth that thethiopians named Macrobij, do more estieme latten then thei do golde whiche thei put to nothyng that thei compt of any price.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
Now I have looked upon our lord Solomon while he was yet living and I have witnessed wonders beyond compt and conception.'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
G, "was of good compt, fyve and twentie hundreth men," &c.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
T. I. presents compt. to I. T. and T. I. begs To say that i see the advertisement And she will Do Herself the pleasure of calling On you at 12 o’clock to-morrow morning.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles
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