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He was of a meane stature, very wise and politike, and passing serious and graue in all his demeanour.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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A house while he liueth, and a graue ready made when he dyeth.
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I saw one newly buried, in whose behalfe they hanged vp 16. horse hides, vnto each quarter of the world 4, betweene certain high posts: and they set besides his graue Cosmos for him to drink, and flesh to eat: and yet they sayd that he was baptized.
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Vnde ostendimus eis, hoc esse nobis graue, ideóque nos cessauerunt compellere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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For the fathers that slewe their chyldren, there was no punyshement of death appoynted, but an iniunction that they shoulde stande thre daies and thre nyghtes togither at the graue of the deade, accompanied with a common warde of the people to see the thyng done.
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And when they haue eaten the fleshe, thei stuffe the hide full of haye, and sowe it againe together and sette it vp ouer the graue vpon foure poles, in remembraunce of the deade.
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In India infima propter continuum et graue frigus generatur christallum de aqua per gelu, sicut quidam asserunt.
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Neere vnto the graue of the partie deceased they alwaies leaue one cottage.
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And aftre what time the priest hath sensed the corps, throwen holy water vppon it, and said certeine prayers, to laye it into the graue with the face vpwarde, and the heade into the Weaste.
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A letter written by the graue and learned Gudbrandus Thorlacius
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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