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The ground became trembling by this means: the castor drowning great soyles with dead water, herein growes mosse which is 2 foot thick or there abouts, and when you think to goe safe and dry, if you take not great care you sink downe to your head or to the midle of your body.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Also they gathered a kind of mosse which groweth on the trees of this countrey, to serue to calke the same withall.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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On January 4th, 2010 at 6: 41 am, Il futuro della comunicazione del vino in 10 mosse (tecnologiche) | Intravino wrote:
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Sacramento, essendo scalzo e con tanta devotione senza muovere gli occhi, né la persona che pareva pių tosto una figura immobile, che un huomo, la qual cosa mosse tutti a gran devotione et compuntione, che gli pareva di vedere una visione in aria.
A Papal Ceremony 2009
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Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore; fecemi la divina podestate, la somma sapïenza e 'l primo amore.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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And may the mosse of prosperousness gather you rolling home!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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For the walles ben covered alle over with mosse; as it semethe.
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But as yet we haue solde none of our cables or halsers, neither is the proofe of them knowen; because the first you sent vs were made of flaxe, which are worth no money: for after they be once wet they will rotte and moulder away like mosse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Of masts both long, and large; with mosse put in betweene, To keepe the force of weather out, I neuer earst haue seene A grosse deuise so good, and on the roofe they lay The burthen barke, to rid the raine, and sudden showres away.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The common houses of the countrey are euery where built of beames of Firre tree: the lower beames doe so receiue the round hollownesse of the vppermost, that by the meanes of the building thereupon, they resist, and expell all winds that blow, and where the timber is ioined together, there they stop the chinks with mosse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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