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- adjective Archaic spelling of
certain .
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Examples
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These of all the other Indians, are appareilled in matte, made of a certayne softe kinde of mere rushes.
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It came to passe, that a certayne young man, well observing the beauty and good parts of
The Decameron 2004
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And he that so dyd not, was punyshed with a certayne nombre of stripes, and was kept thre days without meate.
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To take them or kyll them is esteemed a thyng worthy death,45 and therefore a certayne pensyon is geuen to nourysshe them in the temple.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Here we heard a certayne horrible noyse and crye; for passyng the sayde mountayne, we were in so great daunger, that we thought neuer to have escaped.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Sinai. 24 There we found certayne pyllers artificially wrought, whiche they call Ianuan.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Then proceedyng two dayes journey, we came to a certayne citie name Medinathalnabi: four myles from the said citie, we founde a well.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Therefore whereas my Captayne gaue me charge to buy certayne thynges, as I was in the market place, a certayne Mamaluke knewe me to be a christian, and therefore in his owne language spake vnto me these woordes, “Inte mename,” that is, whence art thou?
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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And about myd nyght we came to a certayne village of the Arabians, and there remayned the rest of that nyght, and the next day tyll noone.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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It may seeme good here to make mention of certayne thynges, in the which is seene sharpenesse of witte in case of vrgent necessitie, which hath no lawe as sayeth the prouerbe, for I was dryuen to the point howe I myght prieuly escape from Mecha.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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