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We manidged to git him owtsyde befour he dropped da froggeh — doan know whut happned to da frog aftr dat — neber finded no trace of himz. didna wanna be krawlin round under da deskes, tryin to ketch a pizd-off bullfrog
Heeeere burdee burdee burdee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Cedar, a very sweet wood & fine timber; wherof if nests of chests be there made, or timber therof fitted for sweet & fine bedsteads, tables, deskes, lutes, virginalles & many things else, (of which there hath beene proofe made already) to make vp fraite with other principal commodities will yeeld profite.
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By this contrivance the windowes of the Library rise high and giue place for the deskes against the walls, and being high may be afforded to be large, and being wide may haue stone mullions and the glasse pointed, which after all inventions is the only durable way in our Climate for a publique building, where care must be had that snowe driue not in ....
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Wren, when he built Trinity College Library in 1695, was the first English architect who ventured to build a library with windows which, as he says himself, "rise high, and give place for the deskes against the walls."
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 John Willis Clark 1871
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Cedar, a very sweet wood & fine timber; whereof if nests of chests be there made, or timber therof fitted for sweet & fine bedsteads, tables, or deskes, lutes, virginalles & many things else, (of which there hath beene proofe made already) to make vp fraite with other principal commodities will yeeld profite.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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Grubbers and rooters upp of cipres, cedars and of all other faire trees, for to be employed in coffers, deskes, &c., for traficque.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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