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Ermonye the grete, that is to seyne, fro the southe to the northe: and fro the est to the west, it durethe fro the grete desertes of
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Ermonye the grete, that is to seyne, fro the southe to the northe: and fro the est to the west, it durethe fro the grete desertes of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the reme of Sirye durethe fro the desertes of Arabye, unto Cecyle, and that is Ermonye the grete, that is to seyne, fro the southe to the northe: and fro the est to the west, it durethe fro the grete desertes of Arabye onto the West See.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Which thynge the Welchman herying ran out of heven a grete pace.
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Butt! there waz resepshen – sumwun tu mete an grete meh.
And exactly where were you last night? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I therefore spent the five hours between getting up and guests arriving accomplishing a lot, including making three salads, baking a cake, mowing the lawn, planting broccolis, brussel sprouts and the loosestrife I got from grete.
Happy 17th May plus a lot of preparations, party and whatnot. grete 2009
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Nawt wuns tudai did ai heer ennywun grete me az Yur laidyship oar enny suxh fing. we be seeryuslee slipping awn owr manurz.
Holy Water in the water bowl… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales".
Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible Rus Bowden 2007
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Like the grete Sokates, but not rf not grete I, the Poisoin, mcuh Deservd, movs up throu my Torso and Deadeens my Limbs and Turns my Fingrs — Surgeons fingers — to Unfeellling Sticks and
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Caunterbury (thilke that sownen into synne), the book of the Leoun, and many another book, if they were in my remembrance; and many a song and many a leccherous lay, that Crist for his grete mercy foryeve me the synne.
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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