Payne
[pein]
Definition
v.i. (Spens.) to take pains exert one's self.
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Examples
- The next day Mr. Payne, of Georgetown, and I started on our return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Payne put a wire in the binding-post of the battery, the motor started, and an assistant began sawing a heavy oak log. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- More recent developments in this art are shown in patents to Wetherill, No. 555,792, March 3, 1896, and Payne, No. 641,148, January 9, 1900. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Payne had a shop in Newark, and in one small room was the motor, weighing perhaps six hundred pounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was seventy miles from home, with a carriage to take back, and Mr. Payne said he did not know that his horse had ever had a collar on. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She may have Payne's room, Emmy said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Payne is my name, sir--Doctor Payne of the 43rd. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Do be quiet, Payne,' interposed the lieutenant. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Pray be quiet, Payne,' said the doctor's second. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The little doctor looked wrathful, but confounded; and Mr. Payne gazed with a ferocious aspect on the beaming countenance of the unconscious Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She may have Payne's room, who can go upstairs, Emmy continued. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I entreat you to be quiet, Payne,' said the other. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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