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  • Likewise, “bidding one’s bedes” in the Middle Ages does not so much mean praying with a literal string of beads, as it means praying for one’s bedes, that is, the people or requests one is obliged to pray for.

    Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Therbs, ireckon we would call bedes’s notes as a ” Rotund Rumble”

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Massive multi-threaded narrative versus single POV or small ensemble cast stories. 2009

  • Likewise, “bidding one’s bedes” in the Middle Ages does not so much mean praying with a literal string of beads, as it means praying for one’s bedes, that is, the people or requests one is obliged to pray for.

    The Name of the Rosary elena maria vidal 2009

  • I would be inclined to go for the rear tank and then the 12v pump like bedes says, have other gear on the front.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2009

  • Also, Simon mentioned his is a two wheeler. 4×4 quads have a larger turning circle for starters, and chew fuel faster. the up side is that its open riding, not up and down the cogs stuff, or like bedes would be. .high in the reves in gears, unless you go for an auto jobbie.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2009

  • By quokka, September 4, 2009 @ 12:25 pm bedes in my professional experience, men who are scared of massage generally have a lot of unsightly back hair which makes the experience squirmy and uncomfortable. tug on some nostril hair for a sample demonstration of the pain involved.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » First full day of being differently abled. 2009

  • They were: Agnès la Herme, Jehanne de la Tarme, Henriette la Gaultière, and Gauchére la Violette—all four widows, all four bedes-women of the Chapelle Etienne-Haudry, who, with their superior’s permission, and conformably to the rules of Pierre d’Ailly, had come to hear the sermon.

    I. Charitable Souls. Book IV 1917

  • They think that their Werowances and priests which they also esteeme quiyough-cosughs, when they are deade doe goe beyond the mountains towards the setting of the sun, and ever remain there in form of their Okee, with their bedes paynted rede with oyle and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beads, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing with all their predecessors.

    A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

  • Say I will be his bedes-woman for ever, in any convent he shall name.

    The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • That sinful mannes _bedes_, [46] _Underfong_ [47] this present,

    The Lay of Marie Matilda Betham 1814

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