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- adverb Obsolete spelling of
amain .
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Examples
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Some better assurance getting possession of her, as knowing him perfectly by his voice, and looking more stedfastly on his face, which constantly avouched him to be Theobaldo; the teares trickling amaine downe her faire cheekes, she ran to embrace him, casting her armes about his necke, and kissing him a thousand times, my faithfull husband, nothing in the world can be so welcom to me.
The Decameron 2004
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When Frederigo had heard the Ladies request, which was now quite out of his power to graunt, because it had bene her service at dinner: he stood like a man meerely dulled in his sences, the teares trickling amaine downe his cheekes, and he not able to utter one word.
The Decameron 2004
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Which when the Priest felt, he cryed out aloud, getting out with all the haste he could make, and all his companions, being well-neere frighted out of their wits, ranne away amaine, as if they had bene followed by a thousand divels.
The Decameron 2004
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Likewise the Philosophers attend vpon a point or character the second time, and when it is fulfilled, the crier crieth out amaine; Put your fingers in your eares: and foorthwith againe he saieth; Plucke them out.
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Soone after, the Damosell (as if none of this punishment had bene inflicted on her) started up sodainly, running amaine towards the Sea shore, and the Hounds swiftly following her, as the
The Decameron 2004
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Now marcheth Mars amaine and fiercely gins to fight,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Who held a white flag in his hand, and waued vs amaine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Her selfe (shee said) and all the flowers of _Spayne_, Should vnder his, as heauens Ensigne warre: Thus from her harts foule dunghill flyes amaine Grosse vapours, metamorphosd to a starre; Her words in fumes like prodogies retaine His hart, by her tongues witchcraft bound so farre, And what shee will, that will hee vnder-take, Be it to warre with heauen for her sake.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cry now, Launch, launch in hast, hale of the boate amaine:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And crying loud to them amaine they bid vs come aboord.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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