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1628. Venner, Baths of Bathe, 1. Bathe … is a little well-compacted Cittie.
1720. Pope, Iliad, XXII. 6. Advancing o’er the Fields Beneath one Roof of well-compacted Shields. Ibid. (1725), Odyss., XXI. 253. At ev’ry portal let some matron wait, And each lock fast the well-compacted gate.
1825. Scott, Talism., iii. The accuracy of proportion displayed in his nervous and well-compacted figure.
1854. Milman, Lat. Chr., III. v. (1864), II. 11. The solid and well-compacted body of Roman law.
1874. Geo. Eliot, Coll. Breakf.-P., 815. Close by the stream where well-compacted boats Were moored.
