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- adverb Obsolete typography of
above .
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Examples
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The buildings within it are also of earth, but ruined and out of good order: it hath one long street that is couered aboue, which is the place of their market.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Arithmeticall aboue three, is compounded of the inferiour numbers as twise two make foure, but the three is made of one number, videl. of two and an vnitie.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The buildings within it are also of earth, but ruined and out of good order: it hath one long street that is couered aboue, which is the place of their market.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I.Cap. 3, Of the outward meancs ApoltlcSjbecaufc they arc feme of cbc Lordc, & arc his mcflcngcrs} yc cbccaufe it was much bchouefuU, that there fiiould be a ccrtamc knowledge had of the fending of them that Ihould bring a thing newr and vnheard of, itVasneccflarie that thofc xij (to whoes number Paule was afterwarde added) Ihould be garniilicd with fomc peculiar title aboue the reft.
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Guest101: “2 There is that lingering issue aboue military service that you conveniently neglect to mention.”
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The fact that the Times hasn't fired her for her obvious lies (the lies of Jayson Blair are aboue. 00001% of the severity of Miller's lies) speaks volumes about how much the Times is willing to provide political cover for the Cheney administration.
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Their houses wherein they sleepe, they ground vpon a round foundation of wickers artificially wrought and compacted together: the roofe whereof consisteth (in like sorte) of wickers, meeting aboue into one little roundell, out of which roundell ascendeth a necke like vnto
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And when they come together to drinke and make merie, they sprinckle parte of their drinke vpon the image which is aboue the masters head: afterward vpon other images in order: then goeth a seruant out of the house with a cuppe full of drinke sprinckling it thrise towards the South, and bowing his knee at euery time: and this is done for the honour of the fire.
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I answered them with the words aboue mentioned: that we had heard concerning duke Sartach, that he was become a Christian, and that vnto him our determination was to trauel, hauing your Maiesties letters to deliuer vnto him.
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I could see but a fewe men that guided all these matters: whereupon I inquired how many men he had vnder him, and they told me that he had not aboue 500. in all, the one halfe of which number we were come past, as they lay in another lodging.
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