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- noun Obsolete spelling of
afternoon .
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Examples
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7 We departed from Voyets at 4. of the clocke in the morning, and so came to an Ozera or lake, called after the name of the riuer, and vnto a place called Quequenich, wee rowed all this day, and came thither by one of the clock in the afternoone, which is
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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7 We departed from Voyets at 4. of the clocke in the morning, and so came to an Ozera or lake, called after the name of the riuer, and vnto a place called Quequenich, wee rowed all this day, and came thither by one of the clock in the afternoone, which is 25. miles from Voyets, and there we remained all night to hire men and boats to carie vs forward on our iourney.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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March 28, 2008 at 10:36 am ai muss leeb dis intlickshul persute jis naw, haz bin a wunnerful afternoone butt a feu tings awr cawling tu mii B4 hubby gits home.
i haz a mous - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Reniero, when some three houres of the afternoone were overpast, awaked from sleeping: and remembring Madame Helena, he went to see in what estate she was; as also to send his servant unto dinner, because he had fasted all that day.
The Decameron 2004
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On Tuesday likewise hauing not yet suffiently serued our turnes, we sent againe for fresh water, which was then not so easie to be gotten as the day before, by reason of a great winde: which in the afternoone increased also in such sort, that we thought it not safe to ride so neere the land; whereupon we weyed anker and so departed Northwest and by west, alongst the coast of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The same day in the afternoone we sawe in the element, a cloud with a long tayle, like vnto the tayle of a serpent, which cloud is called in Italian Cion, the tayle of this cloud did hang as it were into the sea: and we did see the water vnder the sayde cloude ascend, as it were like a smoke or myste, the which this Cion drew vp to it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the afternoone were sent 300 vnder the conduct of Captaine
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the afternoone we went to see the towne of Parenzo, it is a pretie handsome towne, vnder the Venetians.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The lord high Admiral of England being thus on the sudden, namely vpon the 19. of July about foure of the clocke in the afternoone, enformed by the pinasse of captaine
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The tenth of September being Wednesday in the afternoone, wee came again to Fayal roade.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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