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He met one of his favorite daughters    By an Evangelical Meeting: And forgetting himself for joy at her sight, He would have accosted her outright,    And given her a fatherly greeting.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have bang'd the youth into dumbness.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare uses fire-new— "You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

He met one of his favorite daughters By an Evangelical Meeting: And forgetting himself for joy at her sight, He would have accosted her outright, And given her a fatherly greeting.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

As she opened the door, one of them broke off in the midst of what he was saying and would have accosted her.

From The Illustrious Prince by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)