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There is also another great hearbe in forme of a Marigolde, ahout sixe foote in height; the head with the floure is a spanne in breadth.
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There is also another great hearbe in forme of a Marigolde, about sixe foote in height; the head with the floure is a spanne in breadth.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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There is also another great herbe, in forme of a Marigolde, about sixe foot in height, the head with a floure is a spanne in bredth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But we make them with milk and selfrising floure,butter and saltBut we ad some cinnamon to it and we put them 30 minut,s in the oven 180c When they are ready they are a bit crusty and when you put the jam and the whipped cream on top they are delicious
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But the men of worshyp and gentlemen vse the iuce of a certeine floure they haue emonge them, whiche maketh drincke moche like the worste of the Renishe muste.
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Neri Pegolotti, who was a comely yong Gentleman, fresh, and in the floure of his time, even as she was, therefore they agreed the better together.
The Decameron 2004
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Beside, these two maine motives, to challenge justly grace and favour from thee; they are in the floure and pride of their youth, having long continued in loyall love together, and compelled by fervency of endeared affection, not any will to displease thy Majesty: they have offended (if it may be termed an offence to love, and in such lovely young people as they are.)
The Decameron 2004
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These beastes with great attendaunce and chardge are kept vp aboute the cloistres of the Temple, by men of no meane reputation: whiche fiede them with floure and otemeale, and diuers deinties, sopped and stieped in milke.
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This peper tree hath his floure and berry like in all parts to our Iuie berry, and those berries be graines of peper: so that when they gather them they be greene, and then they lay them in the Sunne, and they become blacke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In this sea of sande we traueiled the journey of three days and nightes: this is a great brode plaine, all couered with white sande, in maner as small as floure.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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