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- adjective obsolete
Former .
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Examples
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* Scholia certe, in quibus de integritate hujus loci dubitatur, omnia ex uno forne promanarunt.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Med himmelsblåa ögon och med huvuden omflutna utav lockigt guld, de vinkade en vänlig hälsning till sin forne ungdomsvän.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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The giant awoke, and enquired 'if forne leaf had fallen upon him.
Icelandic poetry 1797
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Befide his troops, he took with him many Moorifh. families, who were to people forne towns round Malaga.
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By fuch acls of barbarous policy, which had, in forne fort, become neceffary, in confequence of the avarice, ficklenefs, and preponderance of the Ne - groes, thefe turbulent forces, that had fo often often put up the empire at auction, loft that afcendancy they had acquired*
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Thefe leaves are pinnated; and a va« riety is occafioncd by them; for the folioles of forne forts are indented at their edges, whilft others are found with their edges entire.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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They were at the bottom of the ftair-cafe, before a page in waiting could give the alarm to his mailer, who was converting with forne friends in a large hall.
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Perhaps he was gone out in company with Ho - nour, to fight a duel; to pay off forne debt at play, or dirty an - nuity, the bargain of his luft.
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All Our Purchafes in This World are but the Catching of a Tartar, as ive fay, but it is forne Comfort yet to Confider, that when Things are at the Worft they I Mend.
Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692
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They were glad to gettherh out 'of the RreaIe,, ipurrinjr/trieir Horfe with fpeed homewards, intending toftaj' upon forne Hill to behold the Combat.
The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: Containing an Impartial ... 1683
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