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  • Yes | No | Report from adam wrote 2 years 8 weeks ago how ironic on the second day of gun season i shot a spike with one side broken off, i thought it was adoe.

    Whitetail News: Is This a Unicorn Deer? 2007

  • The poore beaten woman, could hardly raise her selfe from the ground, which yet (with much adoe) she did, and threw her selfe upon the bed, where she tooke such rest as she could: but arising early the next morning, she came to her Husband, and making him a very low courtesie, demaunded what hee pleased to have for his dinner; he smiling heartely thereat, with Melisso, tolde her his mind.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Land, and calling forth her Daughters to helpe her, with much adoe she unfolded his armes from the Chest, setting it up on her

    The Decameron 2004

  • Gasparuolo was well contented with the motion, and made no more adoe, but counted downe the Crownes: departing thence (within a few dayes after) for Geneway, according to his Wives former message; she giving Gulfardo also intelligence of his absence, that now

    The Decameron 2004

  • For all the broad side of our barke lay in the water, and we had much adoe to recouer it, but God of his mercy deliuered vs. Mariners here may doe you good seruice all the winter otherwayes: and merchants here will be gladder to ship their goods in vs giuing good fraight.

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

  • Vaigats, all along which part there was great store of yce, so that we stood in doubt of passage, yet by much adoe we got betwixt the shoare and it: about 6 in the afternoone was found a great white beare vpon a piece of ice: all this day in the afternoone it was darke with fogge.

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

  • This day we found the pole eleuated seuenty degrees, 4. minutes, we had 63. fathoms oze: this night was a very fayre night, but it freezed: in the morning we had much adoe to goe through the same: [Frost.] and we were in doubt that if it should haue freezed so much the night following, we should hardly haue passed out of it.

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

  • Longespee and the Englishmen that they could not abide them, but flouted them after an opprobrious maner with English tailes, insomuch that the French king himselfe had much adoe to keepe peace betweene them.

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

  • Which thing was of all the Russes in the rest of their iourney so willingly done, that they began to quarrell, yea, and to fight also in striuing and contending which of them should put their post horses to the sledde: so that after much adoe and great paines taken in this long and wearie iourney,

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

  • So that with much adoe and entreatie, it hath pleased his Maiestie to take vpon him the kingdome, and he is absolute Emperor to him and his heires.

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

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