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September 26, 2009 at 6:46 am we wille have ye cheese-draped baron of beefe pattye
Queen Elizabittykitty - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Mans flesh, if it be fat, is eaten as ordinarily there, as beefe in our country.
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And further, I was to prouide for biscuit, beere, and beefe, and other victuals, and things otherwayes needful according to aduise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We thinke it good that you prouide against the next yeere for the comming of our shippes 20 or 30 bullockes killed and salted, for beefe is very deare here.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now, the very same writers confesse, that the Islanders liue by fish, butter, flesh both beefe and mutton, and corne also, though it bee scarce, and brought out of other countries.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now, the very same writers confesse, that the Islanders liue by fish, butter, flesh both beefe and mutton, and corne also, though it bee scarce, and brought out of other countries.
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Walnuts, Eggs, in which the Yealk rattl'd, a Peare, a piece of beefe, with the bones in it; an whole hedg-hog, a plaice on a Wooden Trencher turnd into Stone, & very perfect:
VIRTUOSO MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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And although the English will no lesse disdaine, than any Nation under heaven can doe, to be beaten upon their owne ground or elsewhere by a forraigne enemie; yet to entertaine those that shall assaile us, with their owne beefe in their bellies, and before they eate of our Kentish Capons, I take to be the wisest way.
Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958
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And to prove my nature wholly, they gave met such meates as every Asse doth abhorre: for they put before mee beefe and vinegar, birds and pepper, fish and verjuice: in the meane season they that beheld met at the table did nothing but laugh.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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He looked under the consecrated Laune sleeves as big as Bul-beefe -- just like Bacchus upon
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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