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 Literature
Holp, hōlp, Holpen, hōlp′n, old pa.t. and pa.p. of help.
From Project Gutenberg
In despite of all these troubles, and in the middest of his poverty, a young man, but newly come to man's estate, durst in his mind think of the conquest of Asia, yea of the empire of the whole world, with thirty thousand footmen and five thousand horse, ... howbeit he was furnished with magnanimity, with temperance, with wisdom, and valour: being more holpen in this martial enterprise, with that he had learned of his tutor Aristotle, than with that which his father Philippus had left him....
From Project Gutenberg
Is there any help to be holpen by?
From Project Gutenberg
The land will not be nobler or more holpen If Gunnar burns and we go forth unsinged.
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