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Examples
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Wherein thei be righte experte, and almoste (for those quartres) without matche or felowe.
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That wher Europe alone, (and not al that by a great deale) standeth in the belief of Christe: almoste all Asie, and Aphrique, yea and a greate pece of Europe standeth in the
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Thei had one vniforme and constaunt waie of teaching, and one constantnes of doctrine, not waueryng and almoste contrary to it self, as the doctrine of the Greekes: where eche Philosopher almoste had his waie, and iudgemente, of the principles and causes of thynges.
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Asie is deuided from Europe, with Tanais the floude, whiche comyng fro the North, ronneth into the marshe of Meotis almoste midwaie, and there sincking himself, leaueth the marshe and Pontus Euxinus, for the rest of the bounde.
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Scithians, and therefore of some so called: vse to fighte bothe on horsebacke and on fote, with suche actiuitie and force, that thei are almoste inuincible in bothe.
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But their armies ware altogether almoste of slaues and bondemen, contrary to the maner of other peoples.
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Thei are content with suche foode as commeth to hande, desiryng no suche as other menne tourne the worlde almoste vpside downe to haue, leauing no element vnransaked to gette a gowbin35 for their glotenous gorge: but suche as the earth vnploughed, or vndoluen, yeldeth of her self.
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(“What part of speech?”) have used the English word since 1553 (about the time Skelton began smelling a rat), when Prince Edward was said to have “learned almoste foure bookes of Cato to construe, to parse, and to say wythout booke.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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(“What part of speech?”) have used the English word since 1553 (about the time Skelton began smelling a rat), when Prince Edward was said to have “learned almoste foure bookes of Cato to construe, to parse, and to say wythout booke.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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(“What part of speech?”) have used the English word since 1553 (about the time Skelton began smelling a rat), when Prince Edward was said to have “learned almoste foure bookes of Cato to construe, to parse, and to say wythout booke.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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