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Definition of Imbarred
1. imbar [v] - See also: imbar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbarred
Literary usage of Imbarred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... the angel swift himself prepared To execute the charge imposed aright : In
form of airy members fair imbarred, His spirits pure were subject to our ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1848)
"... where she was long imbarred, they hired this Dutchman to bring them thither,
where they had appointed this ship to come, (not daring to go into England, ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... the heirs male failing, were not in ancient time forbidden, or imbarred, but
that they might be accounted, and by name stiled honourable, ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"The precipitate breach with France, by taking their ships to a great value without
making recompense to the English, whose goods were thereupon imbarred and ..."
5. A General History of New England, from the Discovery to MDCLXXX. by William Hubbard (1848)
"... where she was long imbarred, they hired this Dutchman to bring them thither,
where they had appointed this ship to come, (not daring to go into England, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England: For the Last Hundred by James Welwood (1820)
"The precipitate breach with France, by taking their ships to a great value,
without making recompense to the English, whose goods were thereupon imbarred ..."
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