shewed

The slangy term shewed the speaker's desire to get rid of his own feelings.

Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it.

The Guermantes Way 2003

Various coins shewed through the gold meshes of the one; the Russia leather of the other told no tales.

The Gold of Chickaree Susan Warner 1852

And I to Tom Trice, who in short shewed me a writt he had ready for my father, and I promised to answer it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Trice, who in short shewed me a writt he had ready for my father, and I promised to answer it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 13: November/December 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668

And I to Tom Trice, who in short shewed me a writt he had ready for my father, and I promised to answer it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

And I to Tom Trice, who in short shewed me a writt he had ready for my father, and I promised to answer it.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661

And it is a thing to be noted, that Luke saith not, that the disciples were sent to hear Paul preach, but the disciples being come together to break bread upon the first day of the week, that is, to be partakers of the holy communion, at what time the Lord's death was by the preaching of the word shewed (1 Cor. xviii.

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

And Jesus in that word shewed me ghostly sight of her: right as I had seen her afore little and simple, so He shewed her then high and noble and glorious, and pleasing to Him above all creatures.

Revelations of Divine Love 1901

These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing women — particularly in the Jewish quarter — to all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed.

Travels in Morocco 2003