Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
quail , queal. - noun An obsolete form of
wheel .
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Examples
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[696] "Et les nuncia auxi la cause de la longe demore quele il avoit faite es dites parties saunz chivaucher sur ses enemys; et coment il le covendra faire pur defaute d'avoir."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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And ek myd his worldes weole. god iqueme er he quele. youþe and al þat he haueþ i {} drowe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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She knew if that were done that, as she scrawled in her own peculiar French, "le Roy mon fils nave jeames lantyere aubeysance," [1] and she was determined "que personne ne pent nous brouller en lamitie en la quele je desire que set deus Royaumes demeurent pendant mauye."
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Vous les assurerez, quele roi prend un interet veritable 'a leurs personnes comme a leur cause, et qu 'ils peuvent compter sur sa protection.
Autobiography 1821
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E tant com il furunt la, Edmund morust tost, e Eduuard prist a femme Agathe la filie le emperour Henri, de la quele il engendra Margarete, ki pus fust reyne de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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E tant com il furunt la, Edmund morust tost, e Eduuard prist a femme Agathe la filie le emperour Henri, de la quele il engendra Margarete, ki pus fust reyne de Escoce, e Edgar” (_Le Liuere de reis de Engleterre_,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[694] "Sur quele demonstrance il respoundrent q'il voleient parler ensemble et treter sur cest bosoigne ....
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Philippe Nunez tells us how to purify linseed oil "for white and blues;" and Pacheco, "el de linaza no me quele mal: aunque ai quien diga que no
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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Buffon himself in another part of his work; (1) "en general il paroit ques les pays un peu froids conviennent mieux a nos boeufs que les pays chauds, et qu'ils sont d'autant plus gross et plus grands quele climat est plus humide et plus abondans en paturages.
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The Abbe Sieyes, the most logical head of the nation, (author of the pamphlet "Quest ce quele Tiers Etat?
Autobiography 1821
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