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| verb | frequency |
|---|---|
| was | 265 |
| is | 184 |
| went | 111 |
| said | 100 |
| be | 91 |
| had | 79 |
| have | 73 |
| do | 71 |
| were | 69 |
| came | 61 |
| did | 61 |
| are | 59 |
| go | 57 |
| says | 54 |
| ''s | 52 |
| come | 49 |
| see | 45 |
| stands | 44 |
| get | 40 |
| made | 38 |
| sat | 33 |
| began | 30 |
| give | 30 |
| sing | 27 |
| make | 27 |
| met | 26 |
| got | 25 |
| love | 24 |
| going | 24 |
| let | 23 |
| has | 23 |
| been | 22 |
| took | 22 |
| gave | 21 |
| lived | 21 |
| put | 20 |
| buy | 20 |
| built | 19 |
| tell | 18 |
| take | 18 |
| ran | 18 |
| beat | 17 |
| flew | 17 |
| find | 17 |
| say | 17 |
| kill | 17 |
| know | 17 |
| eat | 16 |
| ate | 15 |
| fell | 14 |
| called | 14 |
| cry | 14 |
| ''ve | 14 |
| found | 14 |
| lay | 14 |
| ride | 14 |
| am | 13 |
| brought | 13 |
| think | 12 |
| stole | 12 |
| seen | 12 |
| play | 12 |
| gone | 12 |
| killed | 11 |
| bite | 11 |
| saw | 11 |
| stood | 11 |
| sent | 10 |
| sell | 10 |
| jumped | 10 |
| drink | 10 |
| cried | 10 |
| burn | 10 |
| shot | 10 |
| caught | 9 |
| bring | 9 |
| try | 9 |
| keep | 9 |
| kept | 9 |
| heard | 8 |
| ''m | 8 |
| ''re | 8 |
| cut | 8 |
| quench | 8 |
| pray | 8 |
| shining | 8 |
| spent | 8 |
| tossed | 8 |
| learn | 7 |
| begins | 7 |
| broke | 7 |
| catch | 7 |
| fetch | 7 |
| fly | 7 |
| dine | 7 |
| like | 7 |
| published | 7 |
| sit | 7 |
| tried | 7 |
| used | 7 |
| worried | 7 |
| lost | 7 |
| done | 6 |
| laid | 6 |
| kissed | 6 |
| hang | 6 |
| feed | 6 |
| contains | 6 |
| does | 6 |
| crumpled | 6 |
| carry | 6 |
| look | 6 |
| lie | 6 |
| call | 6 |
| loved | 6 |
| rode | 6 |
| married | 6 |
| stop | 6 |
| stand | 6 |
| set | 6 |
| told | 6 |
| riding | 6 |
| remember | 6 |
| read | 6 |
| played | 6 |
| milked | 5 |
| ask | 5 |
| blow | 5 |
| bought | 5 |
| comes | 5 |
| dance | 5 |
| held | 5 |
| leave | 5 |
| left | 5 |
| covered | 5 |
| reached | 5 |
| roll | 5 |
| serve | 5 |
| shoot | 5 |
| sits | 5 |
| suppose | 5 |
| turned | 5 |
| twinkle | 5 |
| rise | 5 |
| hunting | 4 |
| hope | 4 |
| hopped | 4 |
| popped | 4 |
| laugh | 4 |
| need | 4 |
| pay | 4 |
| grew | 4 |
| hear | 4 |
| bred | 4 |
| gnaw | 4 |
| eating | 4 |
| dress | 4 |
| died | 4 |
| bound | 4 |
| born | 4 |
| blew | 4 |
| being | 4 |
| ring | 4 |
| pulled | 4 |
| struck | 4 |
| run | 4 |
| torn | 4 |
| sang | 4 |
| wished | 4 |
| whipped | 4 |
| wander | 4 |
| walk | 4 |
| turning | 4 |
| tumbled | 4 |
| trotting | 4 |
| wonder | 4 |
| toll | 4 |
| thought | 4 |
| tattered | 4 |
| write | 4 |
| spare | 4 |
| sold | 4 |
| send | 4 |
| thrive | 4 |
| grow | 3 |
| fight | 3 |
| fill | 3 |
| followed | 3 |
| fought | 3 |
| galloped | 3 |
| goes | 3 |
| lend | 3 |
| hung | 3 |
| kiss | 3 |
| laughed | 3 |
| live | 3 |
| lives | 3 |
| looked | 3 |
| looking | 3 |
| fed | 3 |
| feel | 3 |
| blushed | 3 |
| fear | 3 |
| bleed | 3 |
| asked | 3 |
| bake | 3 |
| bark | 3 |
| bear | 3 |
| begin | 3 |
| begun | 3 |
| bless | 3 |
| drove | 3 |
| loves | 3 |
| brings | 3 |
| colored | 3 |
| coming | 3 |
| dare | 3 |
| die | 3 |
| looks | 3 |
| dropped | 3 |
| makes | 3 |
| spoke | 3 |
| stay | 3 |
| stick | 3 |
| sung | 3 |
| teach | 3 |
| thank | 3 |
| threw | 3 |
| trouble | 3 |
| tumbling | 3 |
| vexed | 3 |
| vowed | 3 |
| wait | 3 |
| walked | 3 |
| washed | 3 |
| wept | 3 |
| marry | 3 |
| spread | 3 |
| walking | 3 |
| spend | 3 |
| seek | 3 |
| observe | 3 |
| speak | 3 |
| pass | 3 |
| passing | 3 |
| pick | 3 |
| pull | 3 |
| roar | 3 |
| passed | 3 |
| seems | 3 |
| sitting | 3 |
| shorn | 3 |
| shout | 3 |
| sliding | 3 |
| singing | 3 |
| shaven | 3 |
| includes | 2 |
| inclined | 2 |
| hold | 2 |
| hid | 2 |
| happened | 2 |
| grown | 2 |
| hanging | 2 |
| grows | 2 |
| furnished | 2 |
| frightened | 2 |
| forgot | 2 |
| jack | 2 |
| follow | 2 |
| including | 2 |
| lauk | 2 |
| jump | 2 |
| jumps | 2 |
| knew | 2 |
| knocked | 2 |
| knowing | 2 |
| known | 2 |
| laughing | 2 |
| leap | 2 |
| learning | 2 |
| lent | 2 |
| longed | 2 |
| loving | 2 |
| mark | 2 |
| fighting | 2 |
| finding | 2 |
| carried | 2 |
| failing | 2 |
| fail | 2 |
| mended | 2 |
| ''d | 2 |
| appear | 2 |
| baked | 2 |
| became | 2 |
| bid | 2 |
| bit | 2 |
| bow | 2 |
| broken | 2 |
| buckle | 2 |
| bunting | 2 |
| burnt | 2 |
| catching | 2 |
| change | 2 |
| changed | 2 |
| cheered | 2 |
| climbed | 2 |
| concealed | 2 |
| crowed | 2 |
| dig | 2 |
| discern | 2 |
| doubt | 2 |
| draw | 2 |
| dressed | 2 |
| drew | 2 |
| drive | 2 |
| eaten | 2 |
| meet | 2 |
| lays | 2 |
| mind | 2 |
| treat | 2 |
| smoking | 2 |
| snap | 2 |
| spin | 2 |
| spray | 2 |
| stopped | 2 |
| sup | 2 |
| sweep | 2 |
| swim | 2 |
| takes | 2 |
| taking | 2 |
| talk | 2 |
| taste | 2 |
| tie | 2 |
| tumble | 2 |
| shut | 2 |
| use | 2 |
| vow | 2 |
| waddling | 2 |
| waked | 2 |
| wanted | 2 |
| wear | 2 |
| wedded | 2 |
| wig | 2 |
| wore | 2 |
| work | 2 |
| writes | 2 |
| wrote | 2 |
| missed | 2 |
| sings | 2 |
| thinks | 2 |
| showing | 2 |
| reading | 2 |
| needs | 2 |
| mourned | 2 |
| showed | 2 |
| open | 2 |
| paid | 2 |
| peep | 2 |
| peeped | 2 |
| pin | 2 |
| please | 2 |
| printed | 2 |
| prove | 2 |
| raised | 2 |
| reach | 2 |
| play''d | 2 |
| replied | 2 |
| seemed | 2 |
| show | 2 |
| shiver | 2 |
| shave | 2 |
| shake | 2 |
| seized | 2 |
| shaved | 2 |
| runs | 2 |
| returned | 2 |
| running | 2 |
| rub | 2 |
| rocking | 2 |
| fourpence | 1 |
| frighten | 1 |
| frighted | 1 |
| fried | 1 |
| fret | 1 |
| freeze | 1 |
| formed | 1 |
| forming | 1 |
| following | 1 |
| forget | 1 |
| fool | 1 |
| folded | 1 |
| follows | 1 |
| galore | 1 |
| galled | 1 |
| grasped | 1 |
| gambol | 1 |
| gaping | 1 |
| garter | 1 |
| gathered | 1 |
| gathering | 1 |
| gaze | 1 |
| gets | 1 |
| gives | 1 |
| giving | 1 |
| gliding | 1 |
| gobble | 1 |
| gobbled | 1 |
| grieved | 1 |
| grin | 1 |
| flown | 1 |
| flying | 1 |
| espied | 1 |
| flowing | 1 |
| feeding | 1 |
| engraved | 1 |
| equipped | 1 |
| erected | 1 |
| handled | 1 |
| examine | 1 |
| exercise | 1 |
| exhaust | 1 |
| expect | 1 |
| expects | 1 |
| explain | 1 |
| exuberant | 1 |
| fails | 1 |
| fall | 1 |
| fast | 1 |
| feels | 1 |
| flowed | 1 |
| felt | 1 |
| fetched | 1 |
| filled | 1 |
| fills | 1 |
| finds | 1 |
| finish | 1 |
| fit | 1 |
| fix | 1 |
| flabbergasts | 1 |
| flamed | 1 |
| flies | 1 |
| flinders | 1 |
| float | 1 |
| floating | 1 |
| grind | 1 |
| intrude | 1 |
| hangs | 1 |
| lands | 1 |
| learn''d | 1 |
| leads | 1 |
| lead | 1 |
| laugh''d | 1 |
| larking | 1 |
| lapped | 1 |
| lack | 1 |
| hatched | 1 |
| knows | 1 |
| kiss''d | 1 |
| kick | 1 |
| keeping | 1 |
| jumping | 1 |
| joined | 1 |
| learned | 1 |
| lectured | 1 |
| leg | 1 |
| licked | 1 |
| lifted | 1 |
| liking | 1 |
| line | 1 |
| listen | 1 |
| listened | 1 |
| living | 1 |
| loaded | 1 |
| looketh | 1 |
| lying | 1 |
| maids | 1 |
| maintained | 1 |
| man | 1 |
| market | 1 |
| join | 1 |
| jam | 1 |
| itching | 1 |
| howling | 1 |
| hauled | 1 |
| having | 1 |
| heap | 1 |
| heaved | 1 |
| help | 1 |
| her,--"if | 1 |
| herd | 1 |
| hic | 1 |
| hide | 1 |
| hit | 1 |
| hoarded | 1 |
| holding | 1 |
| hop | 1 |
| hoped | 1 |
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| issued | 1 |
| hunt | 1 |
| hunted | 1 |
| hurried | 1 |
| hurt | 1 |
| illustrate | 1 |
| implored | 1 |
| indented | 1 |
| indulge | 1 |
| inspiriting | 1 |
| intended | 1 |
| endow | 1 |
| invite | 1 |
| invited | 1 |
| irritating | 1 |
| ends | 1 |
| delighted | 1 |
| ending | 1 |
| brush | 1 |
| bleating | 1 |
| blocking | 1 |
| blows | 1 |
| boast | 1 |
| bobbed | 1 |
| boiling | 1 |
| bored | 1 |
| bowing | 1 |
| braced | 1 |
| brewed | 1 |
| bridesmaid | 1 |
| bridle | 1 |
| bridled | 1 |
| browse | 1 |
| brushed | 1 |
| betwixt | 1 |
| buried | 1 |
| buying | 1 |
| can''t | 1 |
| caper | 1 |
| care | 1 |
| cares | 1 |
| carries | 1 |
| carrying | 1 |
| casts | 1 |
| causing | 1 |
| cavil | 1 |
| chance | 1 |
| chanced | 1 |
| charming | 1 |
| bites | 1 |
| betake | 1 |
| cheated | 1 |
| alphabet | 1 |
| mashed | 1 |
| accosted | 1 |
| added | 1 |
| adds | 1 |
| adieu | 1 |
| admire | 1 |
| advancing | 1 |
| afford | 1 |
| agog | 1 |
| agree | 1 |
| ai | 1 |
| allayed | 1 |
| allowed | 1 |
| allows | 1 |
| answer | 1 |
| believes | 1 |
| appear''d | 1 |
| appoint | 1 |
| approaching | 1 |
| aspire | 1 |
| attempting | 1 |
| awoke | 1 |
| bade | 1 |
| bareheaded | 1 |
| basted | 1 |
| bawl | 1 |
| beating | 1 |
| becomes | 1 |
| beguile | 1 |
| belabour | 1 |
| chasing | 1 |
| cheers | 1 |
| ended | 1 |
| divided | 1 |
| dealt | 1 |
| dear | 1 |
| declared | 1 |
| deliver | 1 |
| deserved | 1 |
| desire | 1 |
| detect | 1 |
| determined | 1 |
| devoured | 1 |
| differentiated | 1 |
| dispend | 1 |
| distiguished | 1 |
| distributed | 1 |
| diverting | 1 |
| doffed | 1 |
| dangling | 1 |
| doing | 1 |
| drags | 1 |
| drank | 1 |
| drives | 1 |
| drown | 1 |
| drowned | 1 |
| drum | 1 |
| dry | 1 |
| dwell | 1 |
| dwelling | 1 |
| edited | 1 |
| eke | 1 |
| elongated | 1 |
| embellished | 1 |
| dash | 1 |
| dangled | 1 |
| cherries | 1 |
| counsel | 1 |
| choose | 1 |
| chose | 1 |
| clad | 1 |
| clapped | 1 |
| cleared | 1 |
| climbs | 1 |
| coloured | 1 |
| combed | 1 |
| confounded | 1 |
| conquer | 1 |
| consist | 1 |
| continues | 1 |
| conveys | 1 |
| convince | 1 |
| counting | 1 |
| dancing | 1 |
| cover | 1 |
| crack | 1 |
| creating | 1 |
| cries | 1 |
| croaking | 1 |
| crosses | 1 |
| crossing | 1 |
| crying | 1 |
| cts | 1 |
| cultivated | 1 |
| curl | 1 |
| curling | 1 |
| danc''d | 1 |
| danced | 1 |
| marries | 1 |
| stooping | 1 |
| match | 1 |
| spoil | 1 |
| starts | 1 |
| startled | 1 |
| stare | 1 |
| standing | 1 |
| spotted | 1 |
| spoiling | 1 |
| split | 1 |
| matter | 1 |
| splashed | 1 |
| splash | 1 |
| spilt | 1 |
| spilled | 1 |
| spied | 1 |
| spends | 1 |
| stayed | 1 |
| steal | 1 |
| stepped | 1 |
| stopping | 1 |
| stray | 1 |
| stretched | 1 |
| strew | 1 |
| strike | 1 |
| struggling | 1 |
| stuffed | 1 |
| succeed | 1 |
| sucks | 1 |
| suffer | 1 |
| suited | 1 |
| suits | 1 |
| sung,-- | 1 |
| sunk | 1 |
| speaks | 1 |
| spake | 1 |
| sowed | 1 |
| sink | 1 |
| shattered | 1 |
| shear | 1 |
| shed | 1 |
| sheep | 1 |
| shine | 1 |
| shines | 1 |
| shoe | 1 |
| shook | 1 |
| shooting | 1 |
| shoving | 1 |
| shown | 1 |
| shows | 1 |
| sighing | 1 |
| sign | 1 |
| sip | 1 |
| sounds | 1 |
| slashed | 1 |
| slid | 1 |
| slide | 1 |
| slung | 1 |
| smart | 1 |
| smashed | 1 |
| smile | 1 |
| smoke | 1 |
| smothered | 1 |
| snapt | 1 |
| snored | 1 |
| sobbing | 1 |
| sorted | 1 |
| sounded | 1 |
| surprising | 1 |
| sweeping | 1 |
| swept | 1 |
| winged | 1 |
| walks | 1 |
| wandered | 1 |
| want | 1 |
| wants | 1 |
| ware | 1 |
| warming | 1 |
| wash | 1 |
| watched | 1 |
| watching | 1 |
| weep | 1 |
| whereat | 1 |
| whip | 1 |
| whispered | 1 |
| wide | 1 |
| winked | 1 |
| waiting | 1 |
| wipe | 1 |
| wiped | 1 |
| wish | 1 |
| won | 1 |
| wondering | 1 |
| worked | 1 |
| worn | 1 |
| worship | 1 |
| wove | 1 |
| wrap | 1 |
| writ | 1 |
| written | 1 |
| yawned | 1 |
| ye | 1 |
| waits | 1 |
| waited | 1 |
| swinging | 1 |
| tickled | 1 |
| sympathize | 1 |
| tack | 1 |
| talked | 1 |
| tarry | 1 |
| taught | 1 |
| telling | 1 |
| tells | 1 |
| thanked | 1 |
| thanking | 1 |
| thrives | 1 |
| throw | 1 |
| thrown | 1 |
| throws | 1 |
| tickle | 1 |
| til | 1 |
| wail | 1 |
| tommy | 1 |
| toss | 1 |
| touch | 1 |
| trot | 1 |
| trow | 1 |
| turn | 1 |
| twain | 1 |
| ventured | 1 |
| vie | 1 |
| view | 1 |
| viewed | 1 |
| waddle | 1 |
| wades | 1 |
| wag | 1 |
| shall-- | 1 |
| sew | 1 |
| setting | 1 |
| portrayed | 1 |
| pasted | 1 |
| pat | 1 |
| pays | 1 |
| peck | 1 |
| peeping | 1 |
| pelting | 1 |
| performing | 1 |
| perplexes | 1 |
| picking | 1 |
| pilfer | 1 |
| plaister | 1 |
| playing | 1 |
| pleased | 1 |
| plunged | 1 |
| posting | 1 |
| parents | 1 |
| pothered | 1 |
| preferred | 1 |
| prefers | 1 |
| prick | 1 |
| pricked | 1 |
| produced | 1 |
| protects | 1 |
| provided | 1 |
| prowled | 1 |
| pudding | 1 |
| purchasing | 1 |
| putting | 1 |
| quarrelled | 1 |
| quartered | 1 |
| passes | 1 |
| pacing | 1 |
| quote | 1 |
| nodded | 1 |
| mean | 1 |
| means | 1 |
| meant | 1 |
| merited | 1 |
| milk | 1 |
| milking | 1 |
| miss | 1 |
| mottled | 1 |
| mounted | 1 |
| mounting | 1 |
| mourn | 1 |
| move | 1 |
| named | 1 |
| neglected | 1 |
| noodle | 1 |
| owl | 1 |
| notes | 1 |
| noticed | 1 |
| object | 1 |
| objected | 1 |
| obliged | 1 |
| observed | 1 |
| observes | 1 |
| obtained | 1 |
| offers | 1 |
| oiled | 1 |
| open''d | 1 |
| opened | 1 |
| overturn | 1 |
| overworked | 1 |
| quit | 1 |
| race | 1 |
| sets | 1 |
| sate | 1 |
| rhymes | 1 |
| rides | 1 |
| rising | 1 |
| roared | 1 |
| roast | 1 |
| rolled | 1 |
| roost | 1 |
| rose | 1 |
| round | 1 |
| rule | 1 |
| ruled | 1 |
| saddle | 1 |
| saddled | 1 |
| sailed | 1 |
| save | 1 |
| return | 1 |
| saving | 1 |
| saying | 1 |
| scampering | 1 |
| scorn | 1 |
| scrambled | 1 |
| scrambling | 1 |
| scrape | 1 |
| screamed | 1 |
| screaming | 1 |
| sealing | 1 |
| searched | 1 |
| seeing | 1 |
| sees | 1 |
| serves | 1 |
| reviewing | 1 |
| retained | 1 |
| rails | 1 |
| remarked | 1 |
| raking | 1 |
| rattle | 1 |
| reaches | 1 |
| reads | 1 |
| recalling | 1 |
| reckon | 1 |
| reeking | 1 |
| refuse | 1 |
| refused | 1 |
| refusing | 1 |
| reign | 1 |
| reject | 1 |
| remain | 1 |
| remained | 1 |
| removed | 1 |
| resumed | 1 |
| repair | 1 |
| reply | 1 |
| represented | 1 |
| rescue | 1 |
| resembled | 1 |
| reserved | 1 |
| resides | 1 |
| resign | 1 |
| resolve | 1 |
| resolving | 1 |
| rest | 1 |
| rested | 1 |
| restless | 1 |
| restrain | 1 |
| accept | 1 |