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Their fatnesse, because it is so liquid, may well be termed oile, and hath many speciall vses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Thanne take oynons, and mynce hem smalle, and seeth hem in oile, til they be al bron; and florissh the disshes, and serve it forth.
Philocrites: Friday Middle English recipe blogging, late edition. 2005
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Thanne take oynons, and mynce hem smalle, and seeth hem in oile, til they be al bron; and florissh the disshes, and serve it forth.
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Thei ware greate fasters, and beganne their Lente thre wekes afore vs: and so streightly fasted it, that vpon the Wednesdaie and Fridaie, thei neither eate any kinde of fisshe, ne aughte wherin was wine, or oile.
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Thirdly, giuyng it suche name as it shall euer aftre bee called by: he marketh it on the breaste and backe with holie oile, aftre the facion of a crosse.
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And the Bishoppe aftre he hath saied one orasion ouer them all, wetyng his thumbe in the holie oile, maketh a crosse vpon eche of their foreheades: In the name of the father, sonne, and holie ghoste.
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Brunswic, a fountaine mixed with oile: and another in Sueuia neere vnto the Abbey called Tergensch.
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Thessalie flowing into Peneus, swimmeth aloft like oile.
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There was also found laden in the same ships, sixty thousand drie hides or skins, esteemed to bee worth 6000. duckets as they reported, there were also found two bags with mony, in the one was 11. hundred single rials, and in the other 10. hundred and forty single rials, with two Buts of traine oile, and two barrels of gum Arabique.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He supposeth the cause of this thing to bee very fattie pitch, which cannot but conteine oile in it.
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