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Sony exec Miller Williams, who's keeping even the group's name a secret (let's hope it's not the Nutmegs), asserts that they're different from the Spice Girls.
Wannabes 2008
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I have not encouraged her to read our state's nominated books, the Nutmegs, because some of them are so mature in subject matter. . .
Is a Sixth Grader a Young Adult? fusenumber8 2007
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Nutmegs and mace were procured from the natives of New
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My favorite legal case is something like "The City of London Versus One Bag of Nutmegs", or something like that.
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Nutmegs and cloves arc not necessaries of life; they are not even used as spices by the natives of the Moluccas, and no one was materially or permanently injured by the destruction of the trees, since there are a hundred other products that can be grown in the same islands, equally valuable and far more beneficial in a social point of view.
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Catten of China: Mace that is faire and good is commonly worth from 100. to 120. thousande Caixas: Good Cloues accordingly, and foure Cloues called Bastan are worth 70. and 80. thousand Caixas the Bhar: Nutmegs are alwaies worth 20. and 25 thousand Caixas the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Nutmegs and Maces, which grow both together, are brought from the Island of Banda, whose tree is like to our walnut tree, but not so big.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cloues, and Nutmegs, which go for the streights of Mecca.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nutmegs for the small trifles you sent him, which I hope long since you haue receiued.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nutmegs, the bateman, 45 medins, and 40 medins maketh a duckat
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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