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Examples
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Then he answering againe said: none of them durst be so bolde he trowed to cary her letters being in that case.
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And well were it (good Father) if he could be contented with those walkes, and gazing glances which hee dartes at me: but growne he is so bolde and shamelesse, that even yesterday, (as I tolde you) hee sent a woman to me, one of his Pandoraes, as it appeared, and as if
The Decameron 2004
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Their weapon is a poinyard, which they call Crisis: it is made with hilts, and the handle is a Deuil cut out of wood or bone: the sheathes are of wood: with them they are very bolde, and it is accounted for a great shame with them if they haue not such a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.
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The first of February we put into a Port in Mallorca,326 called Porto de Sant Pedro: where they would haue euill intreated vs for comming into the Harbour: we thought we might haue bene as bolde there as in other places of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And he said no, they should not: for this land is my kings, and therefore be bolde to come hither.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And as for the Creede, no man may be so bolde as to meddle therewith but in the Church: for they say it shoulde not bee spoken of, but in the Churches.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Northward out of the countrey of Siberia, he hath layed vnto his realme a great breadth and length of ground, from Wichida to the riuer of Obba, about a thousand miles space: so that he is bolde to write himselfe now,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And eke the maisters mate, of stomacke bolde and stout,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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