attaint
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Nor if happily boys declare Thy dominion attaint, refuse, 130 Youth, the nuts to be flinging.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
And the knight was inclined to attaint his lady for a certain cruelty in the matter; she was being something less than fair to the Unspeakable Perk.
From The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
May He have mercy on him who saith: Look thou thy hoariness preserve from aught that may it stain, For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and fain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
The birds methinks tune naught but moan, The winds breathe naught but bitter plaint, The beasts forsake their dens to groan; Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
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