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  • Obama has negated his Cairo speech .... the people in the Middle East syre don't think so!!

    White House defends Obama's stance on Iran 2009

  • And alle they knewe syre Ector, but he knewe not them.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • And here followeth the sevententh book, whiche is of the noble Knyghte syre Galahad.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • And here followeth of syre Launcelot, whiche is the fyftenth book_.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • *** And therewith he cam fyersly upon Arthur, and syre Arthur was wrothe for the blood that he had lost, and smote Accolon on hyhe upon the helme soo myztely that he made hym nyhe to falle to the erthe.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • And therwith alle syre Arthur lyghtely lepte to hit, and gate hit in his hand, and forwith al he knewe that it was his suerd Excalibur, & sayd thow hast ben from me al to long, & moche dommage hast thow done me.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Whan syr Arthur wyst that syre Gawayne was layd so lowe he went vnto hym, and there the kyng made sorowe oute of mesure, and took sire Gawayne in his armes, and thryes [22] he there swouned.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Nay, saide syre Arthur I maye not so, for I haue promysed to doo the bataille to the vttermost by the feythe of my body whyle me lasteth the lyf, and therfor I had leuer to dye with honour than to lyve with shame.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • But syre Arthur pressed unto Accolon with his sheld and gaf hym with the pomel in his hand suche a buffet that he wente thre strydes abak.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Thenne syre Accolon beganne with wordes of treason, and sayd knyghte thow arte overcome, and mayste not endure, and also thow arte wepenles, and thow hast loste moche of thy blood, and I am ful lothe to slee the, therfor yelde the to me as recreaunt.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

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