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Examples
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You have springed your dottrel, I find, and what is the consequence? — why, that there will be hue and cry after you presently.
Redgauntlet 2008
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An officer springed (sic) into action and we have that amazing rescue.
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And so our poor broken-springed world jolts athwart its trackless destiny.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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We sat on the king-size bed with the weak-springed mattress.
Gone for Good Coben, Harlan, 1962- 2002
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He had an uncanny talent for ferreting out, amidst broken-springed, legless, stacked-up pieces, a true antique whose value seemed lost on the owners of the stores.
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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A hunting crop lay casually coiled on a broken-springed chair.
Decider Francis, Dick 1993
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They had wintered it and springed it, and clung to it through bright days and dark.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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Although somewhat highly springed, the vehicle is so well arranged and padded, that the occupants are seldom hurt by striking against the sides with rough jolting, unless quite helpless.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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They had wintered it and springed it, and clung to it through bright days and dark.
Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell
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A girl, so like herself that they might almost have been sisters, passed in a high C-springed carriage.
Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch
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