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- noun Plural form of
ayre .
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'Bibliotheca Madrigaliana,' which is a bibliographical account of the musical and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, appeared in 1847; and you will find a list of early songs, madrigals, and 'ayres' in the fourth volume of the
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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USA is in war and in a bad economic situation. the last thing we need is a president who graduated from a madrasa, hates the USA and has no experience. his circle of friends including rev wright, bill ayres…. prove that Obama is scary.
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The lengths to whyc this NYT rank and file goes to euphemize, legitmize terrorist ayres all for barry…laffable
McCain Questions Obama-Ayers Relationship - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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USA is in war and in a bad economic situation. the last thing we need is a president who graduated from a madrasa, hates the USA and has no experience. his circle of friends including rev wright, bill ayres…. prove that Obama is scary.
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The gods of the earth, resembling the great God of heauen in authority, maiestie, and abundance of all things, wherein is their most delight? and whither doe they withdraw themselues from the troublesome affaires of their estate, being tyred with the hearing and iudging of litigious Controuersies? choked (as it were) with the close ayres of their sumptuous buildings, their stomacks cloyed with variety of
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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March, or generally in any frosty weather, for if the sharpe coldenesse of those ayres doe touch the fruit, it presently makes them looke blacke, and riuelled, so that there is no hope of their continuance.
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In this fayre countrie you shall not finde any large fennie groundes, or offensiue and sicklye ayres, or craggie and fertlesse mosses, but faire and pleasaunt hilles, inuironed and walled about with steip and vnpassageable rockes, and by meanes thereof, secure and free from all daungers and feare, we want not any thing which may breed delight, and cause a sweete content.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Not only in regard of that honour and esteem you have for Musick, but because those Songs which fill this Book have receiv'd much lustre by your excellent performance of them; and (which I confesse I rejoice to sepak of) some, which I esteem the best of these ayres, were of your own composition, after your noble husband was pleas'd to give the words.
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Ye ayres and windes, ye elves of hills, ye brookes and woods alone.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Full musike of easy ayres withowt strange concordes and discordes
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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