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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
poor .
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Examples
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Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of Peru, and of all the West
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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2675: Iustices of Peace, to call poore men before them, a-bout
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Why I come to you at this tyme, is to desire your honour unfainedly to delcare vnto me, whether anye daunger is ment towards my maistres this night or no that I and my poore fellowes maye take such part as shal please god to appoint.
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The King did give me the booke, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Education- we spend at federal,state, & local levels more on as a percentage of GDP than ever before with poore results.
He Loves His Wife… if ONLY She’d Change! - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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