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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fust .
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Examples
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The great hoste abode still till noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts: and passed one after another before the towne and hauen of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Perambolin, there came from Syria 20 other sailes, aswell gallies as fusts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Let others pretend merit; let him brag of the burthen of the day; let him boast of his sabbath - fusts, and let him glory in that he is not as other men: but for me, it is good to cleave unto the Lord, and to put my trust in my Lord God.
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The number of the ships were these: 30 galliasses, 103 gallies, aswell bastards as subtill mahonnets, 15 taffours, 20 fusts, 64 great ships, sixe or seuen gallions, and 30 galleres, besides the nauy that waited for Christain men, if any came to succour vs. These were the vessels that came at the first to lay the siege.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The number of the ships were these: 30 galliasses, 103 gallies, aswell bastards as subtill mahonnets, 15 taffours, 20 fusts, 64 great ships, sixe or seuen gallions, and 30 galleres, besides the nauy that waited for
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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