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Examples
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He swifted to me and took the doll from my hands "No."
Monica Cruz: The Melancholy Death of Julia Scarlet Monica Cruz 2011
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He swifted to me and took the doll from my hands "No."
Monica Cruz: The Melancholy Death of Julia Scarlet Monica Cruz 2011
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Just wait until your empty suit NoBama gets swifted.
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The “swifted” will have the last laugh – it is just a question of timing.
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Thirteen of Gathrid's minutes swifted past without result.
The Swordbearer Cook, Glen 1982
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Student Troy Carter said he took part in the march to send a message to state legislators, adding that higher education is "the swifted tool to end the economic recession."
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Rajoo C, technical analyst at Precise Trader, and only above 0.9110 bias will be swifted: "The Hourly Trend has marched lower and has breached important support so any pullback upside should be limited, 9110-70 are the critical levels to watch to maintain the bearish outlook."
FXstreet.com 2009
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Two: 3O47 AD The Olden Days, Angel City A whisper swifted on lightning feet through Angel City's underworld.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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All our standing rigging, fore and aft, was set up and tarred; the masts stayed; the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or up, as the fashion now is;) and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, that we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shearpoles with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury rattlins until we got close upon the coast.
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All our standing rigging, fore and aft, was set up and tarred; the masts stayed; the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or up, as the fashion now is;) and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, that we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shearpoles with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury rattlins until we got close upon the coast.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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