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1704. [The Indians asked] what he designed to do with that new Timber hal’d to the side of his House.—Boston News-Letter, May 8: J. T. Buckingham, ‘Specimens of Newspaper Literature,’ i. 12 (1850).
1812. They [the poorest class] are sometimes employed in hauling lead from the mines, but it will not be sufficient for their support.—H. M. Brackenridge, ‘Views of Louisiana,’ p. 141 (1814).
*** In the English use of the word, force or violence is included: N.E.D.
