holpen
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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“Welcome, Sir Lancelot Dulac,” they cried, “the flower of all knighthood! By thee we shall be holpen out of danger.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Now when they shall fall they shall be holpen with a little help, viz. in the reign of Constantine the great; but many shall cleave to them with dissimulation.
From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton
Neither by changing the said horsse could the matter be holpen: for euen the same thing happened to the other horsses.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed
He said: "I have sought, O Brynhild, and found the heart of thine home; And no man hath asked or holpen, and all unbidden I come."
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
This sort of compotition in the odde I like not, vnlesse it be holpen by the Cesure or by the accent as I sayd before.
From The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham
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