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  • I needz more practice, and iz tuff to find voluntiers.

    Mah brothah… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Dames, qui voluntiers luy baillèrent leurs filles pour aprendre à lire et

    Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • The statute is said to have been enacted en eide et confort du pape qui moult sovent a estee trublez par tieles et semblables clamours et impetracions, et qui y meist voluntiers covenable remedie, si sa seyntetee estoit sur ces choses enfournee.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • If any individuals in the division called to duty, could not attend, they should be obliored to procure able bodied men (voluntiers) in their stead, which the other divisions could supply.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • TThc time for the reception of voluntiers upon this comlition, ii,

    Debates in Parliament 1787

  • Sir, — Last evening I received advice from the western part of this State, where I have a gentleman now in wait - ing who bore my dispatches to the officers in that quarter, that on Wednesday morning last M 'Shays crossed from Westmoreland in this State over Connecticut River into Vermont; that on Tuesday he beat up for voluntiers in his own party to accompany him to Pultney in Vermont, where he said he would erect his standard, but only three followed him; the residue laid aside their arms & are gone to labor in the neighbourhood of Westmoreland for

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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