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To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.

of his actions should be thrown away in private. Addison. Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little. Boyle.

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away. Dora stored what little she could save. Tennyson.

They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush. Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. Shak. If aught . . . were worthy to subdue The soul of man. Milton.

r so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.

ons, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison.

a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. Hallam.

er was there none under the sun. Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. Macaulay.

Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment. [Obs.] He could in little thing have suffisaunce. Chaucer.

le which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price." F. A. Walker.

n, distress, or misfortunes. This fierce demeanor and his insolence The patience of a god could not support. Dryden.

ake offence without a cause. Shak. When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. Tillotson.

agnanimity; supreme folly. Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.

husband before God. Sir T. More. I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife. Brome.

The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment. Pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house. Shak.

To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton.

d therefore men should remedy suspicion by producing to know more. Bacon. From her hand I could suspect no ill. Milton.

suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could. Shak.

ely. See Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.