Ta

Examples

• I hope it has done you good--ta'en some of the self-conceit out of you? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Mattapony River is formed by the junction of the Mat, the Ta, the Po and the Ny rivers, the last being the northernmost of the four. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I've tried a long time, and 'ta'nt got better. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• You go up theer--an' you ta'e th' first--yi, th' first turnin' on your left--o' that side--past Withamses tuffy shop--' 'I know,' said Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Pretty well for laying, madam, but they've ta'en to eating their eggs: I've no peace o' mind with 'em at all. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Who saw him since the castle was ta'en? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Or ta'en my book, so not here, anywhere, Sure this won't do! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My wife is a hard-working, plain woman; time and trouble has ta'en all the conceit out of her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And we fell back on the guitar-case, and the flower-painting, and the songs about never leaving off dancing, Ta ra la! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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