letted
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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
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
"Papa letted me come," he said gaily, "and Peggy's here, too,—there!"
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
Whiche thynge to shewe in effecte in my selfe, although by fortune some waies I haue ben letted, yet by that whiche fortune cannot debarre, some waies again I haue declared.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John
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
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