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But this is useful- the more people lose hope the more they are willing to cowe down to moral terrorists who tell them that only by learning to become miserable little slaves can they ever get their lives together.
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The event which apparently provoked these observations from the governor was mentioned very briefly in court records of 7 September 1642: "Thomas Graunger, late servant to Love Brewster of Duxborrow, was this Court indicted for buggery wth a mare, a cowe, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey, and was found guilty, and received sentence of death by hanging untill he was dead."
Hullabaloo 2006
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Douce-ame: Take gode cowe mylk, and do it in a pot.
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Douce-ame: Take gode cowe mylk, and do it in a pot.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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In so moche that Ptolomeus Lagus reigning in Egipt, when there chaunced a cowe to die in Memphis for very age: he that had taken charge of the kepyng of her, bestowed vpon the buriall of her (beside a greate some of mony that was giuen him for the keping) fiftie talentes of siluer, that he borowed of Ptolome.
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The Aphres (whice are all brieders of catteile) liue with flesshe and milke, and yet absteine they fro cowes milke, and all cowe fleshe, according to the maner of the Egiptians, and therefore kepe they none vp.
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And because the Egiptians worshippe their goddesse Apis in the fourme of a cowe, therforethei vse to slea also in sacrifice a cowe.
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A cowe will not suffer her selfe to be coupled vnto one of them vnles they whistle or sing vnto her.
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All the Egiptians offer in sacrifice, neither cowe, ne cowe calfe, because they are hallowed to Isis their goddesse, but bulles and bulle calues, or oxen, and stieres.
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But the women of Barcea absteine bothe from cowe fleshe and sowe flesh.
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