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I had starched and ironed it before I went to bed the night before.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

She had starched the muslins!—a circumstance, I am perfectly certain, unheard of in the memory o' man, and a thing which my mother ne'er did.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

Stefana, filled with enthusiasm and generosity of soul, had starched not the bosom alone but the entire shirt.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Donnell, Annie Hamilton