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The vault into which the waste falls is also shown, and he reminds the reader always remember that at noone and at night, emptie it and leave it halfe a foote deepe in fayre water.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Euery Vawter in one blinde Tauerne or other, is Tenant at will, to which shee tolleth resorte, and playes the stale to vtter their victuals, and helpe them to emptie their mustie caskes.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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The vault into which the waste falls is also shown, and he reminds the reader always remember that at noone and at night, emptie it and leave it halfe a foote deepe in fayre water.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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How many noble habitations, filled before with families of Lords and Ladies, were then to be seene emptie, without any one there dwelling, except some silly servant?
The Decameron 2004
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Bishoppe deliuereth hym an emptie Chalice with a Patine, and the
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I brought with me from Constantinople (being by the marchants aduised so to doe) pleasant fruits, muscadel wine, and delicate bisket bread to present vnto the gouernours of Soldaia, to the end I might obtain free passage: because they looke fauorablie vpon no man which commeth with an emptie hand.
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Candelsticke, a Taper, and two emptie Cruorettes deliuered hym.
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And then wee were constrained to beate and whip on our horses, and to lay our garments vpon other emptie horses: yea and sometimes two of vs to ride vpon one horse.
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For at that time the Citie was emptie of men, by reason they were gone all to the warres, and in businesse of the king: in the middest of this rumour wee came thither, and I thought it, a strange thing to see the Portugales vse such insolencie in another mans Citie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These tidings put the Ilanders in great feare, least if they failed of the Spanish fleete and got nothing by them, that then they would fall vpon the Ilands, because they would not returne emptie home, whereupon they held streit watch, sending aduise vnto the king what newes they heard.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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