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And 2 myle fro thens, is a faire chirche; where oure lady mette with Elizabethe, whan thei weren bothe with childe; and seynt John stered in his modres wombe, and made reverence to his Creatour, that he saughe not.
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The 21. hauing the winde at Northwest, they set saile, and stered thence South by West, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And 2 myle fro thens, is a faire chirche; where oure lady mette with Elizabethe, whan thei weren bothe with childe; and seynt John stered in his modres wombe, and made reverence to his Creatour, that he saughe not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 20. day the winde at Northwest they set saile about one of the clocke in the morning, and stered thence South by West, and Southsouthwest about 3. leagues, and then ankered in 6. foot and a halfe water, about nine of the clocke before noone, at which time it fell calme: the eleuation of the pole at that place 45. degrees 13. minuts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She hunted him with jerkily moving eyes, her hand hovering near a hol-stered, captured weapon.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Science was widely held to reveal the will of God in a natural and rational way and it bol - stered arguments from design with new evidence.
DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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Pecten is a fisshe that is in sandy grou {n} de, & wha {n} he is meued or stered, he wynketh.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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And 2 myle fro thens, is a faire chirche; where oure lady mette with Elizabethe, whan thei weren bothe with childe; and seynt John stered in his modres wombe, and made reverence to his Creatour, that he saughe not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The 21. hauing the winde at Northwest, they set saile, and stered thence South by West, and South vntil eleuen of the clocke, and had then nine foote water: and at noone they obserued the latitude, and found it to be 44. degrees 47. minuts: then had they three fathoms and a halfe water, being cleare of the flats.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Northwest they set saile about one of the clocke in the morning, and stered thence South by West, and Southsouthwest about 3. leagues, and then ankered in 6. foot and a halfe water, about nine of the clocke before noone, at which time it fell calme: the eleuation of the pole at that place 45. degrees 13. minuts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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