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They beate out many thinne plates a finger broad and a handful long, and making in euery one of them eight littel holes, they put thereunto three strong and straight leather thongs.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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That which is thinne and cleare their masters drinke: and in very deed it is marueilous sweete and holesome liquor.
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But when thei grewe vnto power, louse and large, and so thinne: that a man mighte see thoroughe it, aftre the facion of the Medes.
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Thei passe ouer raginge floudes, mounteignes and rockes: roughes and plaines, thicke and thinne, if thei be commaunded.
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Mill also in water, making it so thinne, that they may drinke thereof.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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That which is thinne and cleare their masters drinke: and in very deed it is marueilous sweete and holesome liquor.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They beate out many thinne plates a finger broad and a handful long, and making in euery one of them eight littel holes, they put thereunto three strong and straight leather thongs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The other kind is called flake yse, blue, very hard and thinne not aboue three fadomes thick at the farthest, and this kinde of yse bordreth close vpon the shore.
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Mill also in water, making it so thinne, that they may drinke thereof.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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