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  • During this visit I was favourd with a copy of your Blank Verse tribute to the Queen's Oak, and shewd a Sonnet besides on the same Subject, which Sonnet brought

    Letter 216 2009

  • Murry may have disputed the paternity of the child, for the wording of the order indicates that he "hath not shewd sufficient Cause why he should not be the reputed Father of the Child."

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • And whereas the sd Murry hath appeard before us & hath not shewd sufficient Cause why he should not be the reputed Father of the Child — we therefore upon the examination of the Circumstances, as well as upon the Oath of the sd Catherine Audle dohereby ajudge him ye sd Jno Murry to be the reputed Father of the sd.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • And shewd him much braue marchandise to make him come vs neare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The brig lay about a mile and half from the Town, the officers sent their Barge and we went, every mark of Respect and attention which they was in their power, they shewd us.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 June 1776 1963

  • For whereas they fearing punishment for their rebellion with wailefull countenance craued mercie, he neither by countenance nor words shewd anie token of a discouraged mind, but being presented before the emperour Claudius sitting in his tribunall seat, he vttered this speach as followeth.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

  • Currin shewd the Linnen to Mr. Cade and told him he must go with them to Gallway, but delayd it till after the next Office; That he was advisd to carry the Passengers to a Justice of Peace, which he accordingly did; That he bought for himself and a friend 5 pound of broken silver and 9 pound of melted course Silver and deliverd it to

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • All rivers are Low and Dryer in the Summer soe I saw them at the greatest disadvantage being in some places almost drye and the Rocks and stones appear bare, but by those high and Large stone bridges I pass'd wch Lay aCross the Rivers shewd the Great Depth and breadth they used to be ye Winter tymes.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • So saying I shewd him the pistols, and took one in my right hand.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • I had the portrait in the interior of a gold snuff-box, but I had never shewn it to Esther for fear she should think Manon handsomer than herself, and conclude that I only shewd it her out of vanity; but as she now asked to see it I opened the box where it was and gave it her.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

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