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  • But if not, I will first strangle you — I learned the art from a Polonian heyduck, who had been a slave in the

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours.

    Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’ 2006

  • I. Caesar Claudinus gives instance of a cold stomach and over-hot liver, almost in every consultation, con. 89, for a certain count; and con. 106, for a Polonian baron, by reason of heat the blood is inflamed, and gross vapours sent to the heart and brain.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But amongst the rest, Josephus Struthis, that Polonian, in the fifth book, cap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The species are so confounded, as in Caesar Claudinus his forty-fourth consultation for a Polonian Count, in his judgment [1092] he laboured of head melancholy, and that which proceeds from the whole temperature both at once.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Gesner affirms, that a Polonian Gentleman did faithfully assure him, he had seen two young Geese at one time in the belly of a Pike: and hee observes, that in

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Radzivilius, the Polonian duke, calls this apparition, Sancti Germani sidus; and saith moreover that he saw the same after in a storm, as he was sailing, 1582, from Alexandria to Rhodes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Howbeit the Emperour Sigismund taking vp the quarell, peace was ordained between the knights and Polonia, and a league concluded, certaine summes of money also were paide vnto the Polonian, Prussia was restored vnto the knights, neither was the saide order disturbed in the possession of their lands vntill the time of

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • At this time their principal man, and most vsed in their wars, is one Knez Demetrie Iuanowich Forestine, an ancient and expert captaine, and one that hath done great seruice (as they say) against the Tartar and Polonian.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Of pieces for the field they carie no great store, when they warre against the Tartar: but when they deale with the Polonian (of whose forces they make more account) they go better furnished with all kind of munition, and other necessarie prouisions.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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