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In the morning, assone as he was ready, it behoued him to peruse al lettres, supplicacions, and billes: that knowing what was to be done, he might giue aunswer in tyme: that all thinges might rightlie, and ordrely be done.
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What (say they) we do many thinges which we shuld not fo. but God forgyuithe thẽ. &c. To the last I aunswer: The goodnes of Godd which doth forgyue synnes vnto them that be truly penitẽt/doth not diminishe at all the gretnes of the synne.
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Being come to the Castell, he demaunded how the Lord did, and whether he might go see him, to whom aunswer was made, that he could not, for that he was fallen into a slomber.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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_Flamock_ for aunswer: _Within this hower, she will, & c. _ with the rest in so vncleanly termes, as might not now become me by the rule of _Decorum_ to vtter writing to so great a Maiestie, but the king tooke them in so euill part, as he bid _Flamock_ auaunt varlet, and that he should no more be so neere vnto him.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Ho who art thou? at hir speeche I was halfe afraide, and of my selfe ashamed, both ignorant what to say, or howe to aunswer: my voyce and spirit being interdicted, I stoode stone still like a dead image.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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[Sidenote: Diasirmus.] _Eleuacio_, when we make lyghte of, and dyspyse great argumentes brought agaynst vs, whych to aunswer vnto it is labour, and we saye they perteyne not to the purpose, or that they are vnworthy to be answered vnto, or that we kepe them tyll another tyme: Of thys ther nedeth none example.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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By this motion hauing called backe againe my forgotten and lost sences, comforted with their faire, pleasant, and fauourable aspects, and recouering my selfe with their sweet speeches, with a very good will I made this aunswer vnto them.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Wherfor I will aunswer only/to that they saye/that it is but a light synne.
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Let vs goe downe to our cõpanion _Thelemia_, who demanding the cause why they staid so long aboue, _Logistica_ made aunswer, it doth not content our _Poliphilus_, onely to behold, but also to vnderstand by me the secrecie of those things, which he could not goe to knowe, wherein I haue satis-fied him.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Christofer, not receavinge so spedy aunswer as he hoped for from his brother oute of England, by reason of his fallinge into pirates handes, as is aforesaide, and not by reason of any slacknes or unwillingnes of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
bilby commented on the word aunswer
Auwsome!
April 8, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word aunswer
Whats teh quesstion?
April 9, 2010