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Examples
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"His courtesie was his nature, not his craft," quaintly says one historian.
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This has not been tryed by me, but told me by a friend of note, that pretended to do me a courtesie: but if this direction to catch
The Compleat Angler 2007
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“We find naught anywhere for sale, and have need of a host, who through his courtesie would give us of his bread to-night.”
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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I must give over all my honors, my fealty, and my courtesie, that God did bid me use.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Bold Siegfried would fain also have done the same, but now he paid for his courtesie.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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No, I thank you: but I pray do us a courtesie that shal stand you and your daughter in nothing, and we wil think our selves stil something in your debt; it is but to sing us a
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Come Hostis, how do you? wil you first give us a cup of your best Ale, and then dress this Chub, as you drest my last, when I and my friend were hereabout eight or ten daies ago? but you must do me one courtesie, it must be done instantly.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Giselher and Gernot helped thereby with great courtesie.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Sir, your request is granted, and I shall be right glad, both to exchange such a courtesie, and also to enjoy your company.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Ho, what great courtesie one found among the Burgundian men!
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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