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He told of this bargain that he'd made and that sharp trade he had turned, while we set there and listened and laughed like a parsel of fools.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Cheif had a large conic lodge of leather erected for our reception and a parsel of wood collected and laid at the door after which he invited Capt.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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We were visited today by two Clatsop women and two boys who brought a parsel of excellent hats made of Cedar bark and ornamented with beargrass. two of these hats had been made by measures which Capt.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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We don't cook half as much as we used to, nor waste a whole parsel every day on the darkey, and we eat what is set before us, and are thankful.
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I found a parsel of drift wood at the head of the little Island on which I was and immediately set it on fire and collected some willow brush to lye on.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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We sent Goodrich to the village of the broken arm this morning he returned in the evening with some roots bread and a parsel of goats-hair for making our saddle pads.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Gass and Pryor with some others at work to make a parsel of packsaddles. twelve horses will be sufficient to transport our baggage and some pounded fish which we intend taking with us as a reserved store for the rocky mountains.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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The Cheif had a large conic lodge of leather erected for our reception and a parsel of wood collected and laid at the door after which he invited Capt.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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If þou wolt have zelow, do þerto safroun and no parsel.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Take parsel.mynt. garlek. a litul serpell [2] and sawge, a litul canel.gyngur. piper.wyne. brede. vynegur & salt grynde it smal with safroun & messe it forth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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