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And Saint Lumanus having landed at the aforementioned town of Athtrym, he converted unto the faith of Christ first Forkernus, the son of a certain great man who there ruled, then his mother, a Britoness by nation, and lastly his father, Fethleminus, and in a fountain which by his prayers he produced out of the earth, even before their eyes, did he baptize them and many others.
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Phillis grumbled a little over this additional labor, though, at the same time, no one worked harder than she; but she was careful to explain that it was her right, as a freeborn Britoness, to grumble, and that it was as much a relief to her peculiar constitution as a good long yawn is to some people.
Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874
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Thither at their will they haled the yellow-ringleted Britoness --
Enoch Arden & c. 1863
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"Sleep on, proud Britoness!" he exclaims over a woman at rest in the grave she had purchased.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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