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Whereupon their citie was not destroyed, but they slue manie of them and others they carried away captiue, and taking spoyles, they filled the citie with other inhabitants, and so marched foorth against the citie of Orna.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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But he must go presently without all delay: and he that hath suffered the iniury, carieth him, as it were captiue.
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The nineteenth Winricus a Knoppenrodt In this mans time the knights took the king of the Lithuanians named Kinstut captiue, and kept him prisoner in Marieburg halfe a yeere, but by the helpe of a seruaunt, hauing broken out of the Castle, hee escaped away by night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Rules of true hardiment to purchase grace; Showes them the end their trauailes toile had bought, How sweet it is, swift _Fame_ to ouer-goe, How vile to diue in captiue ouerthrow.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Alferius [Marginal note: Or Oliuer.] being by birth a Netherlander, who for certaine yeeres liued captiue in the dominions of Russia vnder two famous men Yacouius and Vnekius, by whom he was sent to
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But he must go presently without all delay: and he that hath suffered the iniury, carieth him, as it were captiue.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hee tolde them moreouer, that Holland was a free countrey, and that euery man there was his owne Master, and that there was not one slaue or captiue in the whole land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Into England (as we sayd before) Don Pedro de Valdez, a man of singular experience, and greatly honoured in his countrey, was led captiue, being accompanied with Don Vasquez de Silua, Don Alonzo de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This man Abdoll wee found to bee a captiue or slaue, and sawe there his wife and children in very poore estate dwelling in a little cottage not so bigge as an hogsty: but by oure meanes he was made free and well rewarded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But we, to make them vnderstand the contrary, sent on lande one Abdoll of China, a captiue of theirs, whom we brought from them in our first voyage; by whose meanes we got audience and credite: and so we presented our gifts and presents to the King, which was but a childe: and the chiefe gouernour called Cephat, hauing the kingly authority, most thankfully receiued the same in the name of his King.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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