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Lets get past this pety issue and come together to re-focus on the real goal: taking back the White House in november!
Clinton supporters to swarm DC over Florida and Michigan 2008
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The commodities of pety Britaine,101 with her Rouers on the sea.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Christians in the Carauan, had it not bene for feare of his brother the king of Vrgence, as we were informed by one of his chiefest counsellers, who willed vs to make him a present, which he tooke, and deliuered: besides, we paid at the said castle for custome, of euery camel one red hide of Russia, besides pety gifts to his officers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Instead of any attempt to do so, it is here given verbatim: ‘Lard gestholb besua virtuisbe intelligence: ass yi body scalbisbe natural reloth cholb suld osme pety have; for natur hass visse equaly maide bot fortune sum exaiti hesse andoyis deprevit: non yeless iviss mou virtiuss deprevit, and virtuiss men decreviss for anen ye ladeniss non quid.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Instead of any attempt to do so, it is here given verbatim: ‘Lard gestholb besua virtuisbe intelligence: ass yi body scalbisbe natural reloth cholb suld osme pety have; for natur hass visse equaly maide bot fortune sum exaiti hesse andoyis deprevit: non yeless iviss mou virtiuss deprevit, and virtuiss men decreviss for anen ye ladeniss non quid.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The English bounce a great deal about obtaining seven Thousand Troops from the pety german Princes and ten Thousand from
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1780 1973
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¶ Thyse pety capteyns wyth Vertu were in fere of and
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ Of hys pety capteynes he made many a kni {gh} t line is
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ And whyl thyse pety captey {n} s sustend th {us} {the} feld
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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The pete-ma of the Omaguas is, no doubt, the pety of the
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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