19 collocations for compleat

You cannot be unhappy while Amanda is your Daughter: nor shall be, if any thing can prevent it, which is in the power of, MADAM, Your most obedient Humble Servant This Letter he sent by his Steward, and soon after went up to Town himself, to compleat the generous Act he had now resolved on.

I was overjoy'd to be thus revenged on him, for designing on my Fortune; and finding it was in my Power to make his Heart ake, I resolved to compleat my Conquest, and entertain'd several other Pretenders.

She dictates to me in my own Business, sets me right in Point of Trade, and if I disagree with her about any of my Ships at Sea, wonders that I will dispute with her, when I know very well that her Great Grandfather was a Flag Officer. To compleat my Sufferings, she has teazed me for this Quarter of [a ]

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

Then to compleat thy happiness, Take Galatea, since her Passion merits thee, As do thy Virtues her.

Till Night, no; whate'er it be, I wou'd not be without an Inch of that Ceremony, that may compleat my Honour for the World; no, for Heaven's sake, let's retire, and dub me presently.

are you sure his lordship is so compleat a master of the science of defence?"

Much was yet left undone; his lines with all their smoothness were often rambling, and expletives were frequently introduced to compleat his measures.

To compleat his misery, he was obliged to withdraw from the small number of friends from whom he had still reason to hope for favours.

In short, Sir, I must ingenuously own that I was never so handled in all my Life; and to compleat my Misfortune, I am since told that the Butt, flushed with his late Victory, has made a Visit or two to the dear Object of my Wishes, so that I am at once in danger of losing all my Pretensions to Wit, and my Mistress [into ] the Bargain.

Nay, let's retire, and compleat my Quality, and you will find me a Wife of the Mode, I'll warrant you.

That very Sound tears out my hated Soul, And to compleat my ruin, I'll still behold this face where Murder dwells.

To compleat the Scene, the full Moon rose at length in that clouded Majesty, which Milton takes Notice of, and opened to the Eye a new Picture of Nature, which was more finely shaded, and disposed among softer Lights than that which the Sun had before discovered to us.

The Dr. observing her so serene, imagined she would grant him more money to compleat his scheme, but she soon disappointed his expectation, by ordering him to be gone, and made him a present of five guineas, left his desperate circumstances should induce him to take some violent means of providing for himself.

I have not seen, though hang'd therebut comelet's away, and compleat me a right St. Omer's Spark, that I may present my self as soon as they come from Church.

From Cambridge he was removed to Oxford in order to compleat his studies, and after a considerable stay there, and a strict application to the public lectures of the university, he became (says Leland) "a ready logician, a smooth rhetorician, a pleasant poet, a great philosopher, an ingenious mathematician, and a holy divine.

This Society is a Corporation long since established in 'Paris', and we cannot compleat our Advices from 'France', without entertaining the World with everything we meet with from that Country.

The Petticoat is a kind of Incumbrance upon it, and if the Amazons should think fit to go on in this Plunder of our Sex's Ornaments, they ought to add to their Spoils, and compleat their Triumph over us, by wearing the Breeches.

Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassus: or a sure Guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat the English Gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of Discourse or Writing.

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