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"Those people who assume that future is cast in stone because 'the civilised okes are gone and the barbarians have taken over' are entirely misreading the situation; the dominant feature is fluidity,"

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

In the Isle of Delphos one, in Euboea another, at Nasamone a thirde, and emong the Dodonians, the famous okes, whose bowes by the blastes of the winde resounded to the eare, a maner of aduertisemente of deuellishe delusion.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

In Ælfric's Genesis xliv. 11, it had perhaps still the wider sense, a reminiscence of which also remains in the ME. akernes of okes.

languagehat.com: PUTTING THE CORN IN ACORN. 2004

On these mountaines which we passed grow great quantity of gall trees, which are somewhat like our okes, but lesser and more crooked: on the best tree a man shall not finde aboue a pound of galles.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The price varies between four and ten piastres the oke, of two pounds and three quarters English; it is also sold in bales of ten okes each, at the same rate.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

Gerd [6] the blacke mountayn okes yn drybblets [7] twighte [8],

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

"No one enjoys j okes from the United States Marshal's office," said Droom grimly.

Jane Cable George Barr McCutcheon 1897

The largest one had nineteen points to his antlers, weighed when cleaned a hundred and fifteen okes, equal to three hundred and twenty pounds English measure, and certainly was the largest stag I have ever met with, either in Scotland or in Austria.

Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887

Fisk subsequently introduced one of his friends, Edward S. S.okes, to Mrs. Mansfield, and the woman was not long in transferring her affections from her protector to S.okes.

Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

Aleppine twist and sigh of Al-Iráq 2 miskals each; also 2 okes of tongue-sucking, mouth and lip kissing, all to be pounded and mixed.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855