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- noun Obsolete spelling of
bank .
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Examples
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In effect the gutting of Glass Steagall led to investment banke selling your mortgage to foreigners.
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Voters 'notions of government spending are wildly distorted: the public believes that foreign aid consumes twenty-four per cent of the federal budget, for example, though it actually consumes about one per cent. from the issuecartoon banke-mail thisEven apart from ignorance of the basic facts, most people simply do not think politically.
Voting and Democracy 2007
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He received also divers Letters from his Master, to make returne of the 500 Florines over by way of banke, according as he had used to do: but nowe could performe no such matter.
The Decameron 2004
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I might incurre in speaking by such an interpreter, I resolued much rather to holde my peace, and thus we traiueiled with great toile from lodging to lodging, till at the length, a fewe dayes before the feast of Saint Marie Magdalene, we arriued at the banke of the mightie riuer Tanais which diuideth Asia from Europa, euen as the riuer Nilus of Ægypt disioyneth Asia from Africa.
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But being come neere to the River, he chanced to see (before any of the rest) upon the banke thereof, about a dozen Cranes in number, each of them standing but upon one legge, as they use to do when they are sleeping.
The Decameron 2004
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But because wee had not ought to bestowe vpon him, hee did all things vntowardly for vs. [They trauell fiue weekes by the banke of Etilia.]
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Why then doe I not passe and repasse vpon the banke of
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For, from Derbent, which is vpon the extreame borders of Persia, it is about 30 daies iourney to passe ouerthwart the desert, and so to ascend by the banke of Etilia, into the foresaid countrey of
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Don, vpon the banke whereof marcheth a certain prince hauing in marriage the sister of Bathy, his name is Tirbon.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Furthermore he reporteth that this Island euery seuenth yere groweth fast to the banke, so that you cannot discerne it from firme land: but that into the place thereof there succeedeth another, altogether like the former, in nature, quantitie, and vertue: which, from what place it commeth, no man can tell: and that all this happeneth with a kinde of thundering.
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