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I had sneaking hopes you would have dropt in today—tis my poor birthday.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

I can't think for my life where he can be: but I have a notion he must have dropt down some where while I happened to be on the full gallop.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

Thinking at first that it might have dropt out while I slept, I began groping about the floor; but there was no pocket-book there.

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

Dear Dean, you rejoyce my Heart with the very hint you have dropt, and let me beg of you to communicate the whole to me.

From A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 by Anonymous

That he approveth of the sesquipedalia verba is plain; for, had not Telephus and Peleus used this sort of diction in prosperity, they could not have dropt it in adversity.

From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by Saintsbury, George