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I have to pay a few things like the bar, minister, dj, and the fruite for the chocoalte fountaing, but otherwise, things are about done.
grizmom Diary Entry grizmom 2006
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Dames that nicely seemes to shun loves allurings, was guided by the good spirit to a friend of hers, and tasted of the fruite, before she knew the flowers.
The Decameron 2004
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For it cannot beare fruite vnlesse it be moistened with riuer waters, which bee verie rare in that countrey.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Grizelda, it is now more then fitte time, that thou shouldst taste the fruite of thy long admired patience, and that they who have thought me cruell, harsh and uncivill natured, should at length observe, that I have done nothing basely, or unadvisedly.
The Decameron 2004
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The Spanish King hauing with small fruite and commoditie, for aboue twentie yeeres together, waged warre against the Netherlanders, after deliberation with his counsellers thereabout, thought it most conuenient to assault them once againe by Sea, which had bene attempted sundry times heretofore, but not with forces sufficient.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 5. day we went on shore to gather fruite, therewith to refresh our sicke men, that were thirty to 33 in one shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For it cannot beare fruite vnlesse it be moistened with riuer waters, which bee verie rare in that countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To note their fields of graine, and their trees of fruite, and how they abound or not abound in one and other, and what plenty or scarsitie of fish they haue.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nutmegs, which fruite they eate in all those partes of the Indies and beyond the Indies, with the leafe of an Herbe which they call
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And to please the eye, the faire fruite was in no place wanting, where it should yeelde content.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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