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- verb Obsolete spelling of
return .
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The work produced an unexpected gem: there, in a letter written by John Winthrop Jr. in the spring of 1673, was mention of the “returne of Edward Messenger from Boston.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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The work produced an unexpected gem: there, in a letter written by John Winthrop Jr. in the spring of 1673, was mention of the “returne of Edward Messenger from Boston.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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The work produced an unexpected gem: there, in a letter written by John Winthrop Jr. in the spring of 1673, was mention of the “returne of Edward Messenger from Boston.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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How cynical is the courting of Apocalyptical Protestants who are just trying to hold Israel until Jesus returne.
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Especially since art is my first language, and I want nothing in returne but to express it in an image?
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At my returne, I could heare no news of my stockins.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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When resorte so increaseth that they grow in suspition, and the pottes which are sent so often too the Tauerne, gette such a knock before they come home, that they returne their Mayster a crack to his credite: Though hee bee called in question of his life, hee hath shiftes inoughe to auoyde the blanke.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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Alas, my fairest hope, say no more so, but returne home with me, and now that I am acquainted with thy inclination; I will endeavour heereafter to give thee better contentment.
The Decameron 2004
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Which being done, the Merchant dispatching all his affaires at Rhodes, was desirous to returne home to Cyprus, in a
The Decameron 2004
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Madame, your parents, kindred and friends, and generally all throughout Bologna, doe verily thinke you to be dead, wherefore there is not any one, that will make any inquisition after you: in which regard, the favour I desire from you, is no more but to abide here secretly with my Mother, untill such time as I returne from
The Decameron 2004
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