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a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xviii. (1912), 463. By the diligent care of friends and well applied cunning of surgeons.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, I. ii. 5. Timoclea, with well-applyed language, began to question her Guest.
1764. Dodsley, in Shenstone’s Wks. (1768), II. 317. A stone seat … with this well-applied inscription.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 646. A discreet and well-applied industry in the service of mankind.
1842. Lover, Handy Andy, vi. Giving him a hearty cuff on the ear, which would have knocked him down, only that Oonah kept him up by an equally well applied box on the other.
