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Let him not stay long, in one city or town; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town, to another; which is a great adamant of acquaintance.
The Essays 2007
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It stayeth the bleeding of wounds and cleaneth ulcers and sores.
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I met with an honest Friend, who stayeth without at the doore, to him I have sold the Fat for ten Gigliatoes, and he tarrieth to take it away with him.
The Decameron 2004
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And when the master hath drunke, then cries out his seruant as before, and the minstrell stayeth his musique.
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And when the master hath drunke, then cries out his seruant as before, and the minstrell stayeth his musique.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Birca, where the Captaine hauing pitched his tent with the standard of the grand Signior ouer the gate, and the other principall tents standing about his, stayeth there some tenne dayes and no more: in which time all those resort thither that meane to follow the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The kidneys through the emulgent veins draw that aquosity from thence which you call urine, and there send it away through the ureters to be slipped downwards; where, in a lower receptacle, and proper for it, to wit, the bladder, it is kept, and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This we found wonderful strange; for that all nations have interknowledge one of another, either by voyage into foreign parts, or by strangers that come to them; and though the traveller into a foreign country doth commonly know more by the eye than he that stayeth at home can by relation of the traveller; yet both ways suffice to make a mutual knowledge, in some degree, on both parts.
The New Atlantis 2002
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The kidneys through the emulgent veins draw that aquosity from thence which you call urine, and there send it away through the ureters to be slipped downwards; where, in a lower receptacle, and proper for it, to wit, the bladder, it is kept, and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah 27. 1999
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