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_ No god-a-mercy to our Courages tho, I tell you that now, _Gload_; but like an angry Wench, when it had huft and bluster'd it self weary, it lay still again.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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Excerpt lbery had gott the Etallion to sing and he sent an excuse, but the Dutchis of Shrosberry made him com, brought him in her coach, but Mrs. Taufs huft and would not sing becaus he had first put it ofe; though she was thear yet she would not, but went away.
manybooks.net 2010
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They are generally delivered without difficulty; the huft) and afTifts at the labour, and affords his wife the neceflary help.
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Its vallies are watered by fprings and rivers which fall from the mountains, and v/hich the huft) andman knows how to diftribute, with great ikill, to refrefh his rice: he has even the art t r aile his water to the tops of the mountains, and of conveying it from one fide to another, by pipes made of bamboo.
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US morning dream had juft been diflipated; the bride awaked, thinking to roufe/hcr huft) and out of his fleep with an afFec - tionate kifs.
Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford]. 1791
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Edgar the Eagle, her huft) and, was enchanted by weeks: every feventh week he was free from the power of the Ipell; in this in - terval he had often incog, vifited the court of his father-in-law, and brought in - telligence from time to time how affairs ftood at home.
Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford]. 1791
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Yet grieve no more, though long that part fhould laft Than huft) andmen, becaufe the fpring is paft.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1781
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