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But to the thirde Figure, which is of a darke and blacke collour, wherein be the three golden Images: _The Blacke stone is the Lawe: the Coppies foode: the three Women the preseruation of
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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For if colour or magnitude made a difference of Species, then were the Negroes, which wee call the Blacke-Mores, _non animalia rationalia_, not Men but some kind of strange Beasts, and so the giants of the South America should be of another kind than the people of this part of the World.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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And that crime was even committed on another series, 'Blacke's Magic'.
PARENTHOOD, PARENTHOOD Toby O'B 2010
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Certaine were called in, like those of the Blacke gard in the Court of England, the Turks call them Moglans.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tarma chose an inn with the sign of a black sheep hanging above the door, and the words (for the benefit of those that could read) "The Blacke Ewe" painted on the wall beside the door.
The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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"Three more follow, one every two days, from the master of the Blacke Ewe."
The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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Vertuous Ladies_ is dated "From my Chamber in the Blacke-Fryers," and that not one of his later productions is dated from Norton, which probably would have been the case had he been resident there.
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Dommicanus; Thomas Palmer, warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London; Boston of Burie, a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke, wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church, and other treatises.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Yet the Blacke prince did not greatlie fauour him, wherevpon
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Nor will you find readily 'The Blacke Dogge of Newgate' by Luke Hutton, which appeared first about 1600, though 'The Life and Death of Gamaliel Ratsey,
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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