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Of which expedition of Zichmni there are extant in Italian certaine collections or abridgements gathered by
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In this lande I behelde with great delight a very strange spectacle, namely a certaine man leading about with him more then foure thousande partriges.
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In Queenes _Maries_ time florished aboue any other Doctour _Phaer_ one that was well learned & excellently well translated into English verse Heroicall certaine bookes of _Virgils
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Horse, or Horse and Oxen mixt together, according to the custome of the soile wherein the Plow-man liues, or his abilitie in prouision, obseruing euer to kéepe his number of beasts for his Plough certaine, that is to say, for fallowing, and Pease-earth, neuer vnder sixe, and for all other Ardors foure at the least.
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John Hamelton, Archbyshop of S. Andrewes, an. 1549; who to the extent that he would in no wayes appeare inferiour to his predecessour in augmentyng the number of the holy Martyrs of God, in the next yeare following called a certaine poore man to judgement, whose name was Adam
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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_Indians_; which in our vulgar Castilian, we may call a certaine
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In Queenes Maries time florished aboue any other Doctour Phaerone that was well learned & excellently well translated into English verse Heroicall certaine bookes of Virgils Aeneidos. since him followed Maister Arthure Golding, who with no lesse commendation turned into English meetre the Metamorphosis of Ouide, and that other Doctour, who made the supplement to those bookes of Virgiles Aeneidos, which Maister Phaer left vndone.
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Sans préjuger de leur cause il faut reconnaître aux quelques personnes qui se sont déplacés une certaine forme de courage.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Activists Break Fast in Public, Receive Punishment 2009
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Now that I'm a "femme d'une certaine age" I realize what a great metaphor that phrase is for my life.
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Ce sera une excellente education en viticulture, je suis certaine.
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