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This was a great Eye-sore and Heart-burning to some
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Churches, in a corner of the World, where he had reign'd without any controul for many Ages; and it is a vexing _Eye-sore_ to the Devil, that our Lord Christ should be known, and own'd, and preached in this
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"This was a great Eye-sore, and Heart-burning to some lubberly Abbots, who lounged about the Court; they took it in great Dudgeon they were not invited, and stuck so close to his Skirts, that they never rested till they outed him.
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_Eye-sore_ in the grounds opposite to _His Majesty’s Palace_ of
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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