letted
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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But first the very trueth is, that I was from the same voyage letted by the Princes letters, which my Master Sebastian Gabota had obtained for that purpose, to my great griefe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
How came it that some of ye—I know not whom!—thus letted and hindered my messenger?'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox
This is brought to passe safely two waies, by suffring and seruing handsomly nature, if it thruste it oute readily and kindely: and helping nature, if it be letted, or be weake in expellinge.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John
So, again, she and her companions made a fresh essay to go past them; but they letted them in their way.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John
How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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