Black were his robes, dejected was his air, His voice was frozen by his cold despair; Slow, like a ghost, he MOV'd with solemn pace; A dying paleness sat upon his face.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young
If we are willing to allow that Shakespear, by sticking to the bare Events of History, has MOV'd more than any of his Successors, yet his just Admirers must confess, that if he had had the Poetical Art, he would have MOV'd ten times more.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
3. Correction of Cobb and Webster, by each other, under Rule 3d: "dress-er, hast-y, past-ry, seiz-ure, roll-er, jest-er, weav-er, vamp-er, hand-y, dross-y, gloss-y, MOV-er, MOV-ing, ooz-y, full-er, trust-y, weight-y, nois-y, drows-y, swarth-y."
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown