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Examples
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Go take up these clothes here quickly; wheres the cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead; quickly, come.
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_Merry Wives of Windsor_, iii, 3, 'Where's the cowl-staff?' p. 423 _Fortune my Foe.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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Go, take up these clothes here, quickly; where's the cowl-staff?
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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May the devil's dam suck my teat if he does not look as if he had got a blow over the nose with a Naples cowl-staff.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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May the devil’s dam suck my teat if he does not look as if he had got a blow over the nose with a Naples cowl-staff.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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May the devil’s dam suck my teat if he does not look as if he had got a blow over the nose with a Naples cowl-staff.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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