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But like all REPUB men, they are BLIND by her LQQKS and ELECTRICITY that they could not even tell someone wrothe that Op-Ed for her ...
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ That oft sythe causeth {the} good lord to be wrothe
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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But when the people, and the whole multitude, were wrothe with hym, and made a exclamacion against hym, as their maner was.
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*** 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
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MS. 674 has: "Wraththes and willeth not synne, or thus: Beeth wrothe and synnith not."
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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When ich saw this, ich was wrothe see now and start betwene them twaine, see now
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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And so often wente Machomete to this heremyte, that alle his men weren wrothe: for he wolde gladly here this heremyte preche, and make his men wake alle nyghte: and therfore his men thoughten to putte the heremyte to dethe: and so it befelle upon a nyght, that Machomete was dronken of gode wyn, and he felle on slepe; and his men toke Machometes swerd out of his schethe, whils he slepte, and there with thei slowghe this heremyte: and putten his swerd alle blody in his schethe azen.
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