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"Surely smoke becomes a kitchin farre better than a dining chamber, and yet it makes a kitchin also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soyling and infecting them with an vnctuous and oily kind of soote, as hath been found in some great tobacco takers, that after their death, were opened."
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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It is Chaucer's dialect: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote."
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011
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It is Chaucer's dialect: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote."
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011
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It is Chaucer's dialect: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote."
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011
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Why, Ruth studied Saxon, became clever in it, - that was two years ago, - and all that she remembers of it now is 'Whan that sweet Aprile with his schowers soote' - isn't that the way it goes?
Chapter 13 2010
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It is Chaucer's dialect: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote."
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011
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Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote ....
Vocations John 2008
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The organizers seem to have been turned off by the thought of their highly glitzy league — in which some teams are owned by Bollywood movie stars — being conducted under the gray skies and “shoures soote” of England in April.
Cricket, Bollywood Style, Heads for South Africa - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The organizers seem to have been turned off by the thought of their highly glitzy league — in which some teams are owned by Bollywood movie stars — being conducted under the gray skies and “shoures soote” of England in April.
Cricket, Bollywood Style, Heads for South Africa - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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I am often spotted pedaling about, declaiming from the prologue: "Whan that Apryll, with his shoures soote," etc. etc. etc.
From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience BikeSnobNYC 2008
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