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Also the notion that a subwoofer is a "verye small hounde" which had me just about peeing myself.
Valentine For Perfect Strangers intertext 2006
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And yf he hitte, he streighte commeth downe, taketh his horse backe, and foloweth with his hounde.
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Moslem opponent “unchristen hounde,” — a retort courteous to the “Christen hounde,” previously applied to him by the “Pagan.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Fraunce a wolfe coupled with a mastiffe, and a foxe with a hounde.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And yf he hitte, he streighte commeth downe, taketh his horse backe, and foloweth with his hounde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Thereupon nine or tenne of his fellowes running right vp ouer the bushes with great agilitie and swiftnesse came towardes vs with white staues in their handes like halfe pikes, and their dogges of colour blacke not so bigge as a grey-hounde followed them at the heeles; but wee retired vnto our boate without any hurt at all receiued.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Ye haue another figure which me thinkes may well be called (not much sweruing from his originall in sence) the Crosse-couple, because it takes me two contrary words, and tieth them as it were in a paire of couples, and so makes them agree like good fellowes, as I saw once in Fraunce a wolfe coupled with a mastiffe, and a foxe with a hounde.
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4.75.5: As hounde vnto the fote, or dogge vnto the bow,
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