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Examples
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Then bring the pouder forthe and put it in a crucible of golde.
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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An a teespun ob musterd pouder, an a bit ob blak peppah
i seez ur problum - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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It's one of those big, ungraceful, half-pouder jobs, like the late, lamented McHale's used to make.
Archive 2006-06-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006
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It's one of those big, ungraceful, half-pouder jobs, like the late, lamented McHale's used to make.
Burger King Brooks of Sheffield 2006
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Now open, pet, your lips, pepette, like I used my sweet parted lipsabuss with Dan Holohan of facetious memory taught me after the flannel dance, with the proof of love, up Smock Alley the first night he smelled pouder and I coloured beneath my fan, pipetta mia, when you learned me the linguo to melt.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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That their Gunner shot off one of their pieces, which was charged with pouder onely, and was stopped; which our men thinking it had bin shot at them, shot againe, and so beganne the fight: and that the next morning they would send my Lord a resolute answere to his demaunde, for as yet they could not knowe their Gouernours minde herein.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And on the other side nothing, or very litle for fault of pouder: for that that there was left, was kept for some great assault or neede.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After we had defended and repulsed this assault, and perceiued things brought to a narrower straite then they were wont to be at, wee hauing left in all the whole Citie but seuen barrels of pouder, the gouernours of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 4. of Iuly, in the morning we began to burn the towne, and with pouder blewe vp the castle which lay by the towne, and we burned likewise all the cloisters and churches which were without the towne, lying neere the water side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So our men hailing spent all their pouder vpon them in attempting to land, and not being able to preuaile at so great oddes, returned frustrate.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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