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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
carbonado .
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Examples
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Thus cutting the flesh of these animals into convenient pieces, or gobbets, they threw them into the fire and, half carbonadoed or roasted, they devoured them with incredible haste and appetite.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922
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Heres one to a very doleful tune, how a usurers wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden; and how she longed to eat adders heads and toads carbonadoed.
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I, but Matcham, who is Dead, that caused the carpenter to be carbonadoed, and the Scotch purser to walk the Plank.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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As it was, he drew his stiletto, and, but for passengers, would have carbonadoed the captain, who, I understand, made but a poor figure in the quarrel, except by beginning it.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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Made. de Staël Holstein has lost one of her young barons, who has been carbonadoed by a vile
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Dr. Lupton's London and Country carbonadoed and quartered into Seuerall Characters, 1632.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs.
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As it was, he drew his stiletto, and, but for passengers, would have carbonadoed the captain, who, I understand, made but a poor figure in the quarrel, except by beginning it.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Mad'e. de Stael Holstein has lost one of her young barons [2], who has been carbonadoed by a vile Teutonic adjutant, -- kilt and killed in a coffee-house at Scrawsenhawsen.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders 'heads and toads carbonadoed.
The Winter's Tale 1610
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