charg'd

Updated: June 9, 2025

Our ministers, long time, by word and pen, Dealt with them, counting them not boys, but men. Thunderbolts they shot at them and their toys, But hit them not, 'cause they were girls and boys. The better charg'd, the wider still they shot, Or else so high, these dwarfs they touched not. Instead of men, they found them girls and boys, Addict to nothing as to childish toys.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

But he charg'd me, Sir, most passionately to present his Service to your Lady. Fran. Yes, yes; I thought as much. Guz. In a more particular manner. Fran. Friend, my Wife, or Lady, has no need of his Service in a more particular manner, and so you may return it. Jac. Indeed, but she has great need of his service in a very particular manner. Guz.

Aphra Behn - The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III

You see, this young man was kill'd, and they charg'd me with it; so away I ran, and the Watch after me; and therefore I wish to pass the city gates. And as I may have far to travel, and gave my last groat to a thief for hoisting me over Master Carter's wall " "A thief my wall!" repeated Master Carter. "Oh well is thy poor mother in her grave!"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Splendid Spur

Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Full charg'd with England's thunder And plough the distant main. But Kempenfeldt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he, and his eight hundred, Shall plough the wave no more.

Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy : A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.