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At that time there arrived a small ship called the daintie, with twelve men & one woman, some little provision of victuall, two or three horses

Colonial Records of Virginia Various

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is both a good and a most daintie fish; but most men differ about his breeding; some say, they breed by generation as other fish do; and others, that they breed (as some worms do) out of the putrifaction of the earth, and divers other waies; those that denie them to breed by generation, as other fish do, ask, if any man ever saw an

The Compleat Angler 2007

One of them honoureth another exceedingly, and bestoweth banquets very familiarly and liberally, notwithstanding that good victuals are daintie and scarce among them.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

One of them honoureth another exceedingly, and bestoweth banquets very familiarly and liberally, notwithstanding that good victuals are daintie and scarce among them.

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

The Emperour is a great marchant himselfe of waxe and sables, which with good foresight may bee procured to their hands: as for other commodities there are little or none in Moscovia, besides those aboue rehearsed: if there bee other, it is brought thither by the Turkes, who will be daintie to buy our clothes considering the charges of cariage ouer land.

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

So that if such a great armie want not water and salt, they will maintaine themselues a long time in a bush with rootes, flowers and leaues of trees, they cary rice with them for their voyage, and that serueth them in stead of comfits; it is so daintie vnto them.

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

Or else of meat some daintie dish, which their cookes dresse ashore.

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

And if mens eares were not perchaunce to daintie, or their iudgementes ouer partiall, would peraduenture nothing at all misbecome our arte, but make in our meetres a more pleasant numerositie then now is.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Ye Boston demoisselle weareth an waterproof guyascutus, [for so methinketh I haue hearde them calld,] and whan that itt rayneth or snoweth, shee rusheth forth as to a carnavall, and heedeth not yf ye powderie snowe-flakes falle on hir daintie littyl nose, or pile up like untoe a chancellor's wigg on hir hed.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Upon their hordes, in order thicke, the daintie dishes stande,

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton