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Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future « The Paradigm Shift 2006
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My Lord Abbot looking demurely on the Maide, and perceiving her to be faire, feate, and lovely; felt immediately (although he was olde) no lesse spurring on to fleshly desires, then the young Monke before had done; whereupon he beganne to conferre thus privately with himselfe.
The Decameron 2004
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And (as some saie) tumble doune the carkesse into the Sea, (for this Virgine hath a Chapelle vpon the toppe of a high clieue, hangyng ouer the Sea, where this feate is doone) and naile vp the heade vpon a Gibet.
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And thebettre to worcke their feate, thei make them selues boates, of suche canes as growe ther, of a wonderfull biggenes, So, that so muche of the cane as is betwixte ioyncte, and ioyncte, is a iuste proportion of timbre for one of their boates.
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Gouernours and companie of marchantes of the Leuant, that they and such onely as be and shall be of that companie, shall for the sayd terme of twelue yeeres haue, vse, and enioy the whole and onely trade and traffike, and the whole entire and onely libertie, vse, and priuilege of trading and traffiking, and vsing feate of marchandise by and through the Leuant seas otherwise called the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We call this figure following the originall, the [_like loose_] alluding to th'Archers terme who is not said to finish the feate of his shot before he giue the loose, and deliuer his arrow from his bow, in which respect we vse to say marke the loose of a thing for marke the end of it.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Sum beinge drawn out by the feate/were accompted amonge them which hadd sacrificed.
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I would fayne see some rare and artificiall feate indeede, that some admiration and fame might insue the dooing thereof:
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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The rapid increase of commerce under the fostering care of Elizabeth rendered the erection of a Burse or Exchange for the accommodation of merchants "to treate of their feate of merchandyzes" a pressing necessity.
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_Dramatick_ reprehensiue, & put in execution by the feate & dexteritie of mans body, to wit, the _Satyre_, old _Comedie_, new _Comedie_, and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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