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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chuse .
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Examples
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However, the best sources are the original sources -- the reprints of the actual laws found in Blackstone and the Married woman's property law by richard chused.
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Whether Mrs Miller was betrayed herself into this affair, or chused to be the single Lady during this voyage will appear hereafter.
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A single very fine Holland sheet was all our covering, but we found laid by the side of the beds, quilts, in case we chused them, which by four in the morning we found to be absolutely necessary.
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Breakfast was hardly over, when several carriages were at the door, begging our acceptance, to carry us about the town, or where else we chused to go.
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If ladies "chused to sit in the Pit" a place was partitioned off for them.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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-- [MS. erased.] [o] _He chused the bad, and did the good affright_
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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To be sure I can't pretend for to deny but he behaved rather comical; for not paying of nobody, nor so much as making one a little compliment, or the like, though he made no bones of taking all one's goods, and always chused to have the prime of every thing, why it's what I can't pretend to stand up for.
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796
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Bartlet * of Bidiford & his son were ehipt for N: E: but an Oath was imposed vpon them both afore they could get out of the har - bo ', & that stopt them, for they chused rather to dye in prisson then take it.
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To be sure I can’t pretend for to deny but he behaved rather comical; for not paying of nobody, nor so much as making one a little compliment, or the like, though he made no bones of taking all one’s goods, and always chused to have the prime of every thing, why it’s what I can’t pretend to stand up for.
Cecilia 2008
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By idl which it doth evidently appear, that that which of it self cannot stand with the peace and prosperity of a place, and nation, that can be servant of Christ have by the authority of this Lord, unless by a just judgement from him upon the rulers of this world for giving their power, and sword, to the beast, thus to be chused and made drunk with the blood of the Saints, which his tender heart cannot but Ill Newesfrom New'England.
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