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"Floud," says the Lord Keeper, "since I am no Bishop in your opinion,
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Ed. Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey, 2: 123 – 50.
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Note 50: P.C. Floud, "The English Contribution to the Development of Copper-Plate Printing," Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists76 (1960): 425 – 34; P.C. Floud, "English Chintz," Ciba Review 1961, no. 1 (1961): 1 – 24.
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And you are to know that he wil about (especially before) the time of his Spawning, get almost miraculously through Weires and Floud – Gates against the stream, even through such high and swift places as is almost incredible.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Floud-gates or Weirs, or be by accident lost in the fresh water, when the others go (which is usually by flocks or sholes) then they thrive not.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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And because you that are but a young Angler, know not what snigling is, I wil now teach it to you: you remember I told you that Eeles do not usually stir in the day time, for then they hide themselvs under some covert, or under boards, or planks about Floud-gates, or Weirs, or Mils, or in holes in the
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Floud had weakened the Earth, then to minister a greater abundance then before it had
COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968
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"Of a Great Floud; of the Raine-bowe; of Pen and Pensill, upon a fayre and vertuous Ladye's Picture; and the Spirituall Race."
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And others there are that disguise themselves so excessively with strong Waters, that a whole day long they can hardly close their Floud-gates.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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I have much pleasure in introducing Sir Francis Floud.
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