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- verb Obsolete spelling of
took .
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Examples
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Into the which, so soone as we had entred, al the inhabitants there seemed vnto vs to be infected with leprosie: [Salt pits.] for certain base fellowes were placed there to receiue tribute of al such as tooke salt out of the salt pits aforesaid.
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Into the which, so soone as we had entred, al the inhabitants there seemed vnto vs to be infected with leprosie: [Salt pits.] for certain base fellowes were placed there to receiue tribute of al such as tooke salt out of the salt pits aforesaid.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Egelred (whose mother and such as tooke part with hir vnder hir sonnes authoritie were likelie inough to turne all vpside downe) vsed the matter so, that with helpe of Oswald the archbishop of Yorke, and other bishops, abbats, and certeine of the nobilitie, as the earle of
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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[Sidenote: 80000, saith _Dion_.] of 70 thousand Romans, and such as tooke their part in the said places by the Britains thus woon and conquered.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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He was no sooner arriued, but a great number of such as tooke part with his mother came flocking in vnto him: [Sidenote: He besiegeth the castell of Malmesburie.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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Richard was liuing.] mainteining and bruting abroad, that king Richard was aliue, and therefore exhorted men to stand with him, [Sidenote: A priest takē.] for shortlie he would come to light, and reward such as tooke his part with iust recompense.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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At this point, Elizabeth remonstrated with him that he was failing in his duty to her: "shee demaunding of hym what he mente so vncomfortably to vse her, seeing shee tooke hym to be her comfortour and not dismayor."
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She still needs to explain the reason she tooke the minority position in the Democratic Party with her vote in 2002.
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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Most folks think I look the same as the day I first tooke the stage.
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They entered without resistance, and meat being ready, and the cloth laid, they shut the gates, and tooke their refection at good leasure.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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