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swayed

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1. swayed - Adjective

2. swayed - Verb

Meaning

of Sway

Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth. William Butler Yeats

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings. Oswald Pohl

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man. Steven Runciman

Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind. P. G. Wodehouse

It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle

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