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And often it hath befallen, that some of the Jews have gone up the mountains and avaled down to the valleys.
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And often it hathe befallen, that summe of the Jewes han gon up the mountaynes, and avaled down to the valeyes: but gret nombre of folk ne may not do so.
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Then the king avaled his visor with a meek and noble countenance, and said, Madam, there shall none of my subjects misdo you nor your maidens, nor to none that to you belong, but the duke shall abide my judgment.
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And often it hathe befallen, that summe of the Jewes han gon up the mountaynes, and avaled down to the valeyes: but gret nombre of folk ne may not do so.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then the king avaled down from the little hill whereas he stood; and of all that day till then his helm came never on his head.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Then the king avaled down from the little hill whereas he stood; and of all that day till then his helm came never on his head.
The Campaign of Crecy. How the Next Day after the Battle the Englishmen Discomfited Divers Frenchmen 1909
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Then the king avaled his visor with a meek and noble countenance, and said, Madam, there shall none of my subjects misdo you nor your maidens, nor to none that to you belong, but the duke shall abide my judgment.
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Another time a woman drank out of a cruse by night wherein was a little serpent, and it avaled down into her body, wherefore she went to divers medicine and physicians, but it availed to her nothing.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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Then the king avaled down from the little hill whereas he stood; and of all that day till then his helm came never on his head.
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There was a man gone up in the steeple of S. Mark at Venice; and as he intended for to do a work, he was troubled in such wise that he fell, and was like to have been all to-broken in his members, nevertheless in his falling he cried: S. Mark! and anon he rested upon a branch that sprang out, whereof he took none heed, and after, one raught and let him down a cord, by which he avaled down and was saved.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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