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  • Hence, lomb, “lamb,” would take Þæt, which now looks odd because it employs some non-Latin letters but was pronounced somewhat like the current word it spawned: that.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Hence, lomb, “lamb,” would take Þæt, which now looks odd because it employs some non-Latin letters but was pronounced somewhat like the current word it spawned: that.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • I'll send to my frieds my calzones with lomb trimmings.

    Happy Random Pie Day! Brilynn 2007

  • Fred Ware, Jr. would bring lomb a piece of coal for his grandsons, Peggy's children, and he would paint it with clear nail polish for them.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2006 2006

  • And there growethe a maner of fruyt, as thoughe it weren gowrdes: and whan thei ben rype, men kutten hem a to, and men fynden with inne a lytylle best, in flessche, in bon and blode, as though it were a lytylle lomb, with outen wolle.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And there growethe a maner of fruyt, as thoughe it weren gowrdes: and whan thei ben rype, men kutten hem a to, and men fynden with inne a lytylle best, in flessche, in bon and blode, as though it were a lytylle lomb, with outen wolle.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cryst enteryth into the hoûs with his disciplis and ete the Paschal lomb; and in the mene tyme the cownsel-hous beforn-seyd xal sodeynly onclose, schewyng the buschopys, prestys, and jewgys syttyng in here astat, lyche as it were a convocacyon. '

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • He is as lowe as a lomb, · and lovelich of speche,

    English Satires Various 1885

  • And I saigh no temple in it, for the lord god almyghti and the lomb is temple of it, and the citee hath not nede of sunne neither moone that thei schine in it, for the cleerite of god schal lightne it, and the lombe is the lanterne of it, and the kyngis of erthe schulen bringe her glorie and onour into it.

    The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • PlayMesh, did someone steal your Fruit of the lomb undies?

    The iPhone Blog 2010

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  • Citation under icumin.

    October 8, 2008