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"Miss Days' carriage stops the way"—the cry which made one Miss Day long to hide her minished head in the earth—woke the echoes again.

From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mann, Mary E.

Ay, truly," said Tomkins; "and who is to hold me blameless, if they should see cause to think any thing minished?

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

Say now, if you are human, how it comes about that after seven days of want your flesh is not minished nor has your beauty waned.

From Morning Star by Haggard, Henry Rider

Now may all earls Be bettered in mind, May the grief of all maidens Ever be minished, For this tale of sorrow So told to its ending.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

And all our strength is minished and sundered from our side!

From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)