I clipt a man in prime of his delight, What liuely pleasures did I there conceiue?
The ideal chosen for one well-known picture is a grassy down "close clipt by nibbling sheep," such as the fresh green turf of the South Downs.
Love be grief and grame: Yet shall such grame and grief entail no shame; ✿ All annals teach us one thing and the same— Good current coin clipt coin we may not clepe!
He started up, and then returned, But found the phantom still; In vain he shrunk, it clipt him round, With damp and deadly chill!
He clipt her round with many a fond caress, And kissed a thousand times, or little less.
The locks of five princesses I won beyond the sea; I clipt their golden tresses, To fringe a cloak for thee.
His cheek I kissed a thousand times, and yet a thousand more; * Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room.
There are great gaps clipt out of our Bibles that not God Himself can ever print or paste in again.
Look and see if half the Book of Proverbs, for instance, with all its noble promises to a godly youth, is notclipt clean out of your dismembered Bible.
The features of the landscape assume a totally different aspect; the straight roads, the clipt elms, the boundless plains of France are no longer to be seen; and in their place succeeds a thickly wooded soil and cultivated country.
His mean'st Garment That euer hath but clipt his body; is dearer In my respect, then all the Heires aboue thee, Were they all made such men: How now Pisanio?
I did, His eye that ran with tears, his close-clipt hair, His countenance!
An Act had recently been passed for calling in all clipt money and substituting milled money in its stead,(1853) and the crisis was brought about by the old money being called in before the new money was ready for issue.
Saturday, the 2nd May, was practically the last day cliptmoney was received by the exchequer.
The truth on't is, the payment of the pit Is like for like, clipt money for clipt wit.
In 1695, on the contrary, the value of the silver coin was not kept up by the gold coin; a guinea then commonly exchanging for thirty shillings of the worn and clipt silver.
Before 1609, the great quantity of clipt and worn foreign coin which the extensive trade of Amsterdam brought from all parts of Europe, reduced the value of its currency about nine per cent.
Here and there rises a line of pollard willows or clipt elms, and now and then a church spire.
Costumes and dress are rough and simple and of heavy woolens, cliptfrom the sheep and woven on the spot.
From parterre and balustrade, and from the clipt yews of the ornamental garden, fairy lamps burned forth and dwindled away into dim infinity, as the long lines of soft light gradually lost themselves in the forest.
From pricking ears to mincing feet She was all tense with blood and quiver, You saw her clipt hide twitch and shiver Over her netted cords of veins.
Clipt and heeled, prepared for the sport, like cocks for fighting.
She passed within the lodge, and threw her arms about his neck, clipt him and kissed him.
So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clipt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
