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  • The Court of Assistants sentenced him to hang; and the court also ordered “that the mare you abused before your execution in your sight shall be knockt on the head.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The Court of Assistants sentenced him to hang; and the court also ordered “that the mare you abused before your execution in your sight shall be knockt on the head.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The Court of Assistants sentenced him to hang; and the court also ordered “that the mare you abused before your execution in your sight shall be knockt on the head.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • And I lookt down dull, yet with an utter great love upon Mine Own; and there did be no proper wound upon her; but yet was she all bruised and knockt and marked with the trees, and where she did fall in her running.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And I leaped and smote, so that my blow should come the more speedy, and the Diskos took away the head and the shoulder of the Squat Man; and the dead thing knockt me backward, with the spring that it had made; but it harmed me not greatly.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Twice hee knockt softly at the doore, which a wayting woman immediately opened, and receyving the Light, went forth into the Gallery, while the supposed King, was conversing with the Queene.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Finding his doore to be fast lockt, and he having knockt softlie once or twice, he spake in this manner to himselfe.

    The Decameron 2004

  • John might not have the least scruple of suspition, she seemed to be fast asleepe; and Frederigo pausing a while, according to the order directed, knockt againe the second time.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Credulano, being come into the house, and unseen of any, staid not till he was at the Chamber doore, where hee knockt, and called for his Wife.

    The Decameron 2004

  • On the other side, Arriguccio had travelled so farre from his house, till he came at last to the dwelling of Simonidaes brethren: where hee knockt so soundly, that he was quickely heard, and

    The Decameron 2004

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