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Examples
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As folke that had nothyng vndre locke nor keye, barre, nor bolte: but altogether in the open fielde.
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Psalter: but making fast the Closet doore with her keye, because the Priest should not be discovered.
The Decameron 2004
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(CHANG, JYAHNG keye-SHEK) A Chinese general and political leader of the twentieth century.
Chiang Kai-shek 2002
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I came there, the churche dore was faste locked; I tarried halfe an houre and more, and at last the keye was founde, and one of the parishe commes to me, and sayes, 'Syr, thys ys a busye day with us, we cannot heare you; it is Robyn Hoode's day; the parishe is gone abroad to gather for Robyn Hoode.'
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 Various
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And if pitie be the sole and onely keye of Paradise, displaye it now on the behalfe of her, who
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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As hee was stepping out, the other stept in, and let fall a key, hauing his hat so low ouer his eyes, that he could not well discerne his face, and stooping to take up the keye, kept the Gentleman from going backward or forward, by reason his legge was ouer the threshold.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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Muste of the_m_ bege: ther_e_ ys no more to saye, ffor of owr_e_ tonge _the_i were both loke & keye;
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"Nane o 'yer hearkenin' at the keye hole, though, or I s 'lug mark ye, ye --!" said Mrs Catanach, finishing the sentence none the more mildly that she did it only in her heart.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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He is scheduled to be sentenced in March in Cuyahoga (keye-uh-HOH'-guh) County Common Pleas Court.
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As folke that had nothyng vndre locke nor keye, barre, nor bolte: but altogether in the open fielde.
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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