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For euery one tooke their choice of the best horses before vs. They prouided mee alwaies of a strong horse, because I was very corpulent and heauy: but whether he ambled a gentle pase or no, I durst not make any question.
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But the rumour of this accident, as it was strange, so it went soone thorowout all the Court, and from thence among the common people, for which they were very heauy, and greatly discouraged.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vinatico, which are exceeding heauy and will not rot in any water although they lie a thousand yeeres therein.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For euery one tooke their choice of the best horses before vs. They prouided mee alwaies of a strong horse, because I was very corpulent and heauy: but whether he ambled a gentle pase or no, I durst not make any question.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But straight way the Surgions and Physicians were sent for, and the prince was dressed, and within few dayes after, the wound began to putrifie, and the flesh to looke dead and blacke: wherupon they that were about the prince began to mutter among themselues, and were very sad and heauy.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Againe in these _bisillables, endúre, unsúre, demúre, aspíre, desíre, retíre_, your sharpe accent falles vpon the last sillable: but in words _monosillable_ which be for the more part our naturall Saxon English, the accent is indifferent, and may be vsed for sharp or flat and heauy at our pleasure.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Then bycause euery thing that by nature fals down is said heauy, & whatsoever naturally mounts upward is said light, it gaue occasion to say that there were diuersities in the motion of the voice, as swift & slow, which motion also presupposes time, by cause time is
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The sixt part is the right hand hale, through which the other end of the spindels runne, and is much slenderer then the left hand hale, for it is put to no force, but is onely a stay and aide to the Plough houlder when hée cometh to heauy, stiffe, and strong worke, and being ioyned with the rest presenteth this figure.
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Afterward, I founde out the concauitie, and perceiued that any heauy weight, being put vpon the moueable stepping, that it would rise vp like the Keye and Iacke of a Virginall, and lift vp the
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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So shuld the companie hadd with the vnfaithfull/be heauy and bitter to the faithfull.
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