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  • The horns of Buffs are as those of an ox, but not so long, but bigger, & of a blackish collour; he hath a very long hairy taile; he is reddish, his haire frized & very fine.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • We are all embarked, and now must looke for the mouth of the river; and weare put to it, ffor it frized every night and the Ice of good thicknesse, and consequently dangerous to venture our boats against it.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov/Dec 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660

  • 'Though money came from him,' that is, the marquis, 'like drops of blood,' says Dr. Bayly, 'yet was he contented that every drop within his body should be let out,' if only he might be the instrument of bringing his majesty back to the bosom of the catholic church -- a bosom which no doubt the marquis found as soft as it was capacious, but which the king regarded as a good deal resembling that of a careless nurse rather than mother -- frized with pins, and here and there a cruel needle.

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • 'Though money came from him,' that is, the marquis, 'like drops of blood,' says Dr. Bayly, 'yet was he contented that every drop within his body should be let out,' if only he might be the instrument of bringing his majesty back to the bosom of the catholic church -- a bosom which no doubt the marquis found as soft as it was capacious, but which the king regarded as a good deal resembling that of a careless nurse rather than mother -- frized with pins, and here and there a cruel needle.

    St. George and St. Michael Volume III George MacDonald 1864

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