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Speshlollee ifs tehy R YN cabana boies hoo havz teh parthyme jawbs azz teh Fronsch fyremens!
Ur offering is grossly inadiquitz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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By the whiche maner of trainyng, hongre so worketh in the boies that thei become excellente darters.
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They exercise their children whilest thei be boies, to throw the darte at a sette marke, and he that hitteth not the marke receiueth no meate.
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If the traverl was too short for the bed, he would disjoint and break their boies until they fitted it; if they were too long for the bed, he would cut their feet from them, until, they again fitted the bed.
Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982
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Yea, if Man and Wife in their house keeping may be esteemed or compared to the Sun and Moon in the Firmament; verily, those merry white or yellow boies, may very well be considered of as twinkling stars.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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We make no warre against boies, whom wee spare, whensoeuer we inuade or take any cities: but against armed men we fight, yea, and against such, as without offence, or prouocation of our partes, assailed the Romaines campe at the siege of the Veiens.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Hee rested delightfullie vnder a plentifull vine tree full of ripe grapes, and vpon the top of the frame there were little naked boies, climing vp and sitting aloft gathering the ripe clusters: others offering them in a basket to the
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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St. Nicholas day (Decemb. 6th), he was the Patron of the Schoole-boies.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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He mentions specially the cruelty of compelling a poor man to carry for five, eight, or ten miles, on his back, as many sheaves as the "horse-boies" choose to demand of him; and if he goes not a "good pace, though the poor soule be overburdened, he is all the waye beaten outt of all measure."
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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I set my foote on her skirts: the point eyther breaking or stretching, off fell her peticoate from her waste, but as chance was, thogh hir smock were course, it was cleanely; yet the poore wench was so ashamed, the rather for that she could hardly recouer her coate againe from vnruly boies, that looking before like one that had the greene sicknesse, now had she her cheekes all coloured with scarlet.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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