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Eeeeek told hur to let go – she gotted reelee skeered an scootched to teh odde end – an jumped off into the hayloft?
muffin top - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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When I've been reading Middle English for a few hours, min spellynge becwoms a tad odde.
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Wee haue bought in currall for 1200. and odde ducats, and amber for foure hundreth ducates, and some sope and broken glasse, with all other small trifles, all which things I hope will serue very wel for those places that wee shall goe vnto.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now as in Geometrie, the oblique must be knowne as well as the right, and in Arithmetick, the odde as well as the even, so in the actions of our life, who seeth not the filthinesse of evill, wanteth a great foile to perceive the bewtie of vertue.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Secondly, of _Ahabs_ disease exceeding in externall humiliation, affected gestures, passionate sighes, lowdnesse of voyce, odde attires & such like: These know how to rend the garment, hang the head with the bulrush, to whip and launce their skinnes with _Baals_ Priests; and yet strangers to a wounded spirit: not but that true and hearty zeale doth lift up the eyes, knocke the breast, dance before the Arke.
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Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisdomes, make your license the same and spare not ....
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Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisedomes, make your licence the same and spare not.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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_Gnaresbrugh_ (commonly called _Knaresborow_) is a very ancient Market towne in the West-Riding of _Yorkeshire_, distant 14 miles from the City of _Yorke_; where the Pole is elevated 54 degrees, and 20 odde minutes.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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The world thinkes it strange, wee runne not with them into excesses, and doe not as most doe, that wee might escape derision: Judge you which of these men shall please: I beleeve none shall ever please Christ, till they appeare odde, strange and precise men, to the common sort; and yet neede not bee over just neither
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For singularity, Christs calls for it, and presseth & urgeth it; What singular thing doe you, or what odde thing doe you?
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