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- noun Archaic spelling of
earl .
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Examples
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Your HACK and HYSTERICAL and PESSIMISTIC view of earle is the typical sort of PESSIMISM I expect out of retard like you.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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It is an Earledome, and the Lord thereof is called the earle of Gomera.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This doone, they tooke vp the bodie of him whom the Flemish writers call the earle of Penbroke, and got them againe to the sea, for that they were aduertised how the duke of Burgognie meant to besiege Calis.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Spenser, otherwise called earle of Glocester, as he would haue fled into
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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[Sidenote: Danes discomfited.] noble men called earle Rehald, and Geolcil the brother of earle
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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It is an Earledome, and the Lord thereof is called the earle of Gomera.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(otherwise called earle of Tholouse) all that he had taken from him since the breach of the last truce.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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(commonlie called earle of Kime) being then but fourtéene yeares of age, and this was the first time that the said earle spread his banner.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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_ Horger.] that Horgerius duke of Cornewall, or rather Deuonshire, had a daughter named Alfred, a damosell of excellent beautie, whome Edgar minding to haue in mariage, appointed one of his noble men called earle
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
bilby commented on the word earle
'This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.'
- John Aubrey, Brief Lives. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Aubrey
April 12, 2018