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His apparell is a fine painted cloth made of cotton wooll about his middle: his haire is long and bound vp with
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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His apparell is a fine painted cloth made of cotton wooll about his middle: his haire is long and bound vp with a little fine cloth about his head: all the rest of his body is naked.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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He sees with the eyes of a child: the whole world shines for him 'apparell'd in celestial light,' and that light, he is well aware, shines out on it, through the eyes which observe it, from the divine soul of man.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Philla are you saying then that if someone wanted you to throw aside your encumbring apparell and grant someones wish, talking about poltics would be the best way?
Its a Brown Thing Newmania 2007
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Adrimachidæ lieng toward Egipte, are like of maners to Thegiptians, but their apparell is like to the other Penois.
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And in the meane season they neyther bathe, ne drincke wine, or eate any meate, but that that is most base and vile, ne weare any apparell that is gorgeous or faire.
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Immediately also he gave commaund, that the Count should be restored to his honors, apparell, servants, horses, and furniture, answerable to his high estate and calling, which was as speedily performed.
The Decameron 2004
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Ther is no glittering apparell, no rattelinge in sylkes, no sylkes, no rusteling in veluettes, but a litle brieche of brawded russhes, or rather a couering of honeste shamefacednesse.
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When the next foode was sent to Ferando, so much of the powder was mingled with the wine, as would serve onely for foure houres entrauncing, in which time, they clothed him in his owne wearing apparell againe, the Abbot himselfe in person, and his honest trusty Monke of Bologna, conveying and laying him in the same vault under the Tombe, where at the first they gave him buriall.
The Decameron 2004
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The sounde of their voice vnlike to all other: ther apparell aftre the sorte of the Scithians.
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