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surpris'd
  1. (obsolete form of surprised English) v

  2. (en-past of: surprise)

Usage examples of "surpris'd".

In our return, at the request of the company, whose curiosity Wygate had excited, I stripped and leaped into the river, and swam from near Chelsea to Blackfryar's, performing on the way many feats of activity, both upon and under water, that surpris'd and pleas'd those to whom they were novelties.

Being more than a little piqued at the Incivility of one whose Celebrity made me solicitous of his Approbation, I ventur'd to retaliate in kind, and told him, I was surpris'd that a Man of Sense shou'd judge the Thoughtfulness of one whose Productions he admitted never having read.

Bradford left me with Keimer, who was greatly surpris'd when I told him who the old man was.

I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined.

The general and all the officers were surpris'd, declar'd the expedition was then at an end, being impossible, and exclaim'd against the ministers for ignorantly landing them in a country destitute of the means of conveying their stores, baggage, etc.

They seem'd surpris'd that I did not immediately comply with their proposal.