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Examples
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The place for the fresshe grienesse and merie shewe, the Greques name Paradisos.
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Wherefore setting vpon it a fresshe, where the booke is deuided acording to thaunciente diuision of the earth into thre partes, Affrique, Asie, and Europe: hauing brought to an ende the two firste partes, I found no persons in mine opinion so fitte as your honour, to present theim vnto.
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Other, roumyng the cities vp and downe and caryeng alway in bottles faire watre and fresshe, if any man be disposed to drinke, vnasked they willingly proffre it him, and refuse not to take, if he for their gentlenesse offre aught vnto them agayn.
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But if he lacke watre to doe this withall (as that sieldome or neuer can happen, for that thei haue in all cities, bathes, ordenarie for the purpose) thei supplie the defaulte with the moulde of fresshe cleane earthe, wherewith thei rubbe ouer their whole bodies.
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And iudginge the place not to be without watre, for that he sawe it fresshe and grene, digged and founde plenty of watre.
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He smiled charmingly and said, 'I preise wel thy fresshe beautee and age tendre, I trow.'
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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And se the fresshe floures how they sprynge — that is enough.
The Common Reader 1925
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-- She made answer, I was exceedinge fresshe, or some such matter.
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) Nathaniel Parker Willis 1875
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Nota/Botte that is a flounder of the fresshe water/& they swi {m} me on the flatte of their body, & they haue finnes rou {n} de about theyr body & w {i} t {h} a sothern wynde they waxe fatte/
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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[Textnote: [A? fleshe.]] his olde home, as Phisiologua saith/his fisshe [A] is rede, & he may nat liue in a swet sta {n} dinge water/he must be in a fresshe riuer that he may playe up and dou {n} e at his plesure.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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