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| 1687 Dryden Hind & P. i. 356 And sacrilege and she, A well-match'd pair, got graceless heresie. 1749 G. West tr. Pindar, Olymp. Odes v. (1753) I. 46 The well-match'd Coursers. 1807 Crabbe Par. Reg. ii. 358 Now to be wed a well-match'd couple came. 1837 Dickens Pickw. liii, You are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers. 1854 Poultry Chron. II. 310 All perhaps very good birds, but..not forming a well-matched pen. |