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- noun Obsolete spelling of
work . - verb Obsolete spelling of
work .
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Examples
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Indeed they are arrived to a great perfection in worke, so fine and thinn and glossy; their pieces are 27 yards in Length and their price is from 30 shillings to 3 pound as they are in ffineness.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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I call the worke a burden, in consideration that these voyages lay so dispersed, scattered, and hidden in seuerall hucksters hands, that I now woonder at my selfe, to see how I was able to endure the delayes, curiosity, and backwardnesse of many from whom I was to receiue my originals: so that I haue iust cause to make that complaint of the maliciousnes of diuers in our time, which Plinie [Footnote: Plinius. lib.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The foundation of this rare worke he caused to be laid in the year of our Lord 1446: and to the end the worke might be the more rare: first he caused the draughts to be drawn upon Eastland boords, and made the carpenters to carve them according to the draughts thereon, and then gave them for patterns to the masons that they might thereby cut the like in stone. "
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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It came prepackaged into the phrase a job of worke, or rather a iobbes of worke, meaning “a piece of work.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It came prepackaged into the phrase a job of worke, or rather a iobbes of worke, meaning “a piece of work.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Thanks to the three ladies mentioned below for livening up a rather tedious train journey as I worke through their queries.
June Books 2) Option Lock, by Justin Richards yiskah 2010
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He says that technology has vastly reduced the number of worke ...
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Hey McCain just said it, he suspended his campaign and worke hard against the other bills so that he could vote for this one because it would bring us to the brink of economic disaster ...
McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is "Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster" 2009
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But it also represents an opportunity to re-emphasize the importance of the American worke ...
Gene Karpinski: Labor Day 2009: Protect the American Worker with a Clean Energy Economy 2009
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He says that technology has vastly reduced the number of worke ...
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