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  • Lorenzo in their company, and when they were come to a solitarie place, such as best suited with their vile purpose: they ran sodainly upon Lorenzo, slew him, and afterward enterred his body, where hardly it could be discovered by any one.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Pope did cause the ensigne of the crosse to bee displaied against them, they would flee all into their desert and solitarie places. 12

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Continuing thus in talke of divers things, winning way, and beguiling the time, still waiting when their purpose should sort to effect: it fortuned, that the Theeves seeing they were come neere to a Towne, called Chasteau Guillaume, by the foord of a River, the houre somewhat late, the place solitarie, and thickely shaded with

    The Decameron 2004

  • Pope did cause the ensigne of the crosse to bee displaied against them, they would flee all into their desert and solitarie places. 150

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

  • But we haue oftentimes seene such a solitarie lumpe of ise remaining (after the other parts thereof were driuen away) and lying vpon the shore for many weekes together, without any posts or engines at all to stay it.

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

  • But we haue oftentimes seene such a solitarie lumpe of ise remaining (after the other parts thereof were driuen away) and lying vpon the shore for many weekes together, without any posts or engines at all to stay it.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • From whence commeth this new alteration, and desire vnaccustomed, for solitarie being alone, is the reste and argumente of my troubles?

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • _The Author beginneth his _Hypnerotomachia_, to set downe the hower and time when in his sleepe it seemed to him that hee was in a quiet solitarie desart, and vninhabited plaine, and from thence afterward how he entered vnaduisedly before he was aware, with great feare, into a darke obscure and vnfrequented wood.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Shee came with a modest and honest shamefastnesse, and her dwelling place was in a solitarie site and shadie Rocke, decayed and crumbly, her clothes were tattered, her face leane, pale & poore.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Preacher by his life to giue good example, a Iudge to be incorrupted, solitarie and vnacqainted with Courtiers or Courtly entertainements, & as the Philosopher saith _Oportet iudicem esse rudem & simplicem_, without plaite or wrinkle, sower in looke and churlish in speach, contrariwise a

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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