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  • Island for it is wel knowen that vultures come very seldome together with the Ise of the sea, vnto vs, as beares also (but they seldomer then vultures) and a certaine kind of crowes called by the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Island for it is wel knowen that vultures come very seldome together with the Ise of the sea, vnto vs, as beares also (but they seldomer then vultures) and a certaine kind of crowes called by the

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • [Footnote: Magpies.], hares and vultures, all white in Island for it is wel knowen that vultures come very seldome together with the Ise of the sea, vnto vs, as beares also (but they seldomer then vultures) and a certaine kind of crowes called by the Islanders Isakrakur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • May 14, 2010 at 11:52 pm dude gladiator was amazing though my uncle named my cousin after russel crowes character but we all just call him Max

    Review: Robin Hood | The Movie Blog 2010

  • Now you kill their spirit, he says to Buffy and disappears into a mass of black crowes.

    Buffy for Beginners 4.8: Pangs - Pink Raygun.com 2009

  • Half the script re-written to suit crowes overweight binge blubber.

    Ridley Scott To Direct Angry Russell Crowe Nottingham Flick 2008

  • July 30, 2007 at 12:46 am black crowes “terrible”? excuse me but what the hell are you on? they are one of the best bands to emerge in the past 20 years. you are an absolute moron. in fact what kind of music do you feel is not as offensive to your ears?

    Kate Hudson: Help Me Jennifer Aniston! 2006

  • For the ravenes and the crowes and the choughes, and other foules of the contree assemblen hem there every zeer ones, and fleen thider as in pilgrymage: and eyeryche of hem bringethe a braunche of the bayes or of olyve, in here bekes, in stede of offryng, and leven hem there; of the whiche the monkes maken gret plentee of oyle; and this is a gret marvaylle.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Be advised what thou sayest, for, if thou wilt not goe in: we will so beat thee with one of these yron crowes, that thou shalt never goe out of this Church alive.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Leaving off all further talke, because now it was about midnight, they went to the great Church, where finding their enterance to be easie: they approached neere the Tombe, which was very great, being tall of Marble, and the cover-stone weighty, yet with crowes of yron and other helps, they raised it so high, that a man might without perill passe into it.

    The Decameron 2004

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