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Usage examples of "surprizes".
It surprizes us, and so perhaps, it may the reader, that the lieutenant, a worthy and good man, should have applied his chief care, rather to secure the offender, than to preserve the life of the wounded person.
Jones presently dispatched every one out of the room, and, having eagerly broke open the letter, read as follows:- You owe the hearing from me again to an accident which I own surprizes me.
Besides, the sudden and violent impulse on the blood, occasioned by these surprizes, causes frequently such an alteration in the countenance, that the man is obliged to give evidence against himself.