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If any parte of Musick haue suffred shipwrack, and ariued by fortune at their fingers endes, with shewe of gentilitie they take vp faire houses, receive lusty laffes at a price for boorders, and pipe from morning to euening for wood and coale.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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The same euening our guide which had conducted vs, gaue vs some Cosmos.
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For they gaue vs no victuals, but onely in the euening.
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In the euening they bestowed flesh vpon vs, as namely,
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And on the morow we sent him a flagon of Muscadel wine (which had lasted very wel in so long a iourney) and a boxe full of bisket, which was most acceptable vnto him and he kept our seruants with him for that euening.
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Then he replied, that we ought to be patient and lowly: and so we departed from him that euening.
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But in the euening each man hath a little flesh, giuen him to eate, and they drinke the broath thereof.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The lorde, Generall perceiuing that many men were slaine with the ordenance, caused fiue peeces of brasse to bee brought from the castle which we had taken the daie before, and towarde the euening we beganne to make a battery, and the same euening brought into it three peeces, whereof two were placed presentlie to play vppon the Castle and the hill; but that euening were but fiue or sixe shotte made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After dinner we rested vntill it drew towards euening by reason of the heat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The first of August we were warned aboord by the patron, and towards euening we set sayle, and had sight of a Castle called
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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