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
The land will not be nobler or more holpen If Gunnar burns and we go forth unsinged.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel: as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed, forever.
From The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays by Hare, Walter Ben
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 Holinshed, Raphael
No one now uses he spake, and he drave, instead of he spoke, and he drove; holpen is replaced by helped; holden by held; shapen by shaped.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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