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John the Baptist, yea, even the tetrarch himself, with some kind of observance and veneration; and yet because John shewed no sign, "did no miracle," John 10: 41, he was the easilier thrown into prison and not believed: for the story of his imprisonment immediately follows.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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In truth, I should easilier incline to believe this story than that of
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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It is probable they had not put any one to death as yet, since the time that they had removed out of Gazith; and so might the easilier persuade Pilate in that case.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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And accordingly he conquereth _Scotland_, and pulleth down the Parliament: being the easilier perswaded that all this was lawful, because he had a secret Byas and Eye towards his own Exaltation:
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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It is said that a hind taught first the virtue of diptannus, for she eateth this herb that she may calve easilier and sooner; and if she be hurt with an arrow, she seeketh this herb and eateth it, which putteth the iron out of the wound.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And she cheweth meat in her mouth, and maketh it ready to the toothless child, that it may the easilier swallow that meat, and so she feedeth the child when it is an hungered, and pleaseth the child with whispering and songs when it shall sleep, and swatheth it in sweet clothes, and righteth and stretcheth out its other.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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For the wolf had first taken him by the head, and after took him by the reins, for the more easilier to bear him. and the biting of his teeth appeared both in the head and reins.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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It has been most carefully corrected by two young gentlemen who successively volunteered their services, (the second when the first was called away,) and who, residing in Cambridge, where the book was printed, could easilier oversee it.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Money easilier won never sat in my pocket; money for delivering us from a great nuisance, for now I will tell every gunner applicant, 'I cannot, sir; it is let.'
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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` He openeth, and none shutteth; He shutteth, and none openeth; 'and blessed be His holy Name, He is easilier come at
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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