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Search phrase: smothered

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The Comedy of ErrorsCE III.ii.35Smothered in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,Smothred in errors, feeble, shallow, weake,
CoriolanusCor II.i.203Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsedare smother'd vp, / Leades fill'd, and Ridges hors'd
King Edward IIIE3 IV.v.122And say the prince was smothered and not slain;and saie the prince was smoothered, and not slaine,
MacbethMac I.iii.140That function is smothered in surmise,That Function is smother'd in surmise,
Richard IIIR3 I.iv.40But smothered it within my panting bulk,But smother'd it within my panting bulke,
Richard IIIR3 III.vii.163And in the vapour of my glory smothered.And in the vapour of my Glory smother'd.
Richard IIIR3 IV.iii.17When Dighton thus told on – ‘ We smotheredWhen Dighton thus told on, we smothered
Richard IIIR3 IV.iv.70Untimely smothered in their dusky graves.Vntimely smother'd in their dusky Graues.
Richard IIIR3 IV.iv.134My damned son that thy two sweet sons smothered.My damned Son, that thy two sweet Sonnes smother'd.
Richard IIIR3 V.iii.152Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower.Dreame on thy Cousins / Smothered in the Tower:

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The Passionate PilgrimPP.1.14 Since that our faults in love thus smothered be. Since that our faults in Loue thus smother'd be.
The Rape of LucreceLuc.783 That in their smoky ranks his smothered light That in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light
The Rape of LucreceLuc.1418 Another smothered seems to pelt and swear; Another smotherd, seemes to pelt and sweare,
Venus and AdonisVen.1035 And there all smothered up in shade doth sit, And, there all smoothred vp, in shade doth sit,

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dividedbroken, stifled, half-smothered

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half-smothereddivided

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