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I remember being envied because I had a gladde draad hare.
Do you know what your natural hair texture feels like? « Digital immigrant 2009
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So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande.
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Which do plainly prove to what honour and advancement we are come to be so courted, and do gladde his heart and mine.
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¶ Be gladde in trought & ryghtwysnesse & hate dyssymulacyon.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ Accõpt it for best medycyne/and be gladde in thy payne.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ The thyrde is to be gladde & cherefull in thy herte to do suche dedes cõmaûded without ony cõpulcyon/settynge a side all beestly condycyons.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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And he was gladde to here theym talke of the welfare and holynesse of theyr kynge Saynt Edward.
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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¶ The more noble [that] ye ben & come of worshypfull lynage [the] more ye shal meke your self/& euer be gladde of poore & vyle habyte or clothynge/beware of obstentacyon & pryde or to desyre to be better arayed than an other syster is.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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"When the capitayne Magalianes," so runs the contemporary English translation of the story of the voyage, "was past the strayght and sawe the way open to the other mayne sea, he was so gladde thereof that for joy the teares fell from his eyes."
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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And I thanke our lorde, I knowe no person living, that I woulde had one philippe for my sake: of whiche minde I am more gladde then of all the worlde.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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