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Awfully nice of his wife to lose every trace of her accent so as not to offend the ears of her maste... husband.
Apparently, being a vile and despicable racist is context-dependent. CC 2009
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Afterwards, Naaman begs forgiveness for future sins to be committed against the God who cured him of his leprosy - the God of Elisha: 2 Kings 5:18: "However, may the Lord pardon me this one thing - when my maste the king goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship there and leans on my arm, may the Lord pardon me when I bow too."
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 'magnificent maste...
Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Iuries, or Recognisances by reason of their forreine tenure against their will: and that they be free of all their owne wines for which they do trauaile of our right prise,66 that is to say, of one tunne before the mast, and of another behind the maste.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And that they bee free of their owne wines for which they trauaile of our right price or custome, that is to say of one tunne of wine before the maste, and of another tunne behinde the maste.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 12. of Iune wee had a close sky with raine, and the same euening our fore top maste fell downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Islands, wee descried another saile, and bearing after her, we spent the maine maste of our Admirall, but yet in the night our
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After the storme had broke both maste and shrowde.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The state full meane in hauen hath Ancre caste, in surgyng seas, full ofte in vaine to saue the maste, the shippe Ancre casteth.
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Boteswaine of the Galley walked abaft the masts, and his Mate afore the maste ... and when their develish choller rose, they would strike the
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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