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Moreouer of these creatures there are sometimes found some of an incredible bignesse, that is to say, of fourtie foot about.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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First, they haue a tree of a good bignesse which is made fast vpon two sleds, as though it were growing there, and it is hanged with apples, raisins, figs and dates, and with many other fruits abundantly.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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First, they haue a tree of a good bignesse which is made fast vpon two sleds, as though it were growing there, and it is hanged with apples, raisins, figs and dates, and with many other fruits abundantly.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In 1586, Ralph Fitch, the first Englishman to record his impressions of Burma, took note of the pagoda's salient qualities: The Shwedagon, he wrote, "is of a wonderful bignesse, and all gilded from the foot to the toppe ... it is the fairest place, as I suppose, that is in all the world."
Glorious Golden Pagoda Jamie James 2008
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Grind-stones are to bee made, they knede the sand as they use to doe meale, and so make them of what bignesse they please.
The Decameron 2004
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Which is true, as I vnderstand by diuers, who tolde me, that there towardes the North Ocean they make their dogges to draw in carts like oxen, by reason of their bignesse and strength.
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But here it began with yong children, male and female, either under the armepits, or in the groine by certaine swellings, in some to the bignesse of an Apple, in others like an
The Decameron 2004
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Of what bignesse Sir (quoth Calandrino) is the Stone, and what coulour?
The Decameron 2004
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The South part of this Castle is lowe lande, but very fruitfull, where grow many good fruites, among which there is one called a Dynie, of a great bignesse and full of moysture, which the people do eate after meate in steade of drinke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which is true, as I vnderstand by diuers, who tolde me, that there towardes the North Ocean they make their dogges to draw in carts like oxen, by reason of their bignesse and strength.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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