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as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. "A fair peal of artillery." Hayward. Whether those peals of praise be his or no. Shak. And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar. Byron.

al appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

nt life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. Dryden.

by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. Hayward. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. Pope.

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward.

ackstone. In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. Hayward. The prisoner was remitted to the guard. Dryden.

ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. W. Besant.

Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward.

sity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

d reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.

Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. Hayward. In wit a man; simplicity a child. Pope.

rn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

they should see his face no more. Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Sir J. Hayward.

s officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them. Hayward.

his revolution was at stay. Milton. Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. Hayward.

use heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

oods; domestic vessels or utensils. He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. Hayward.

the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded. Sir J. Hayward.

had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.