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But in passing it says this — but never in their ardest whiskered did they re-deposit all of that super-saxony. yet the mourning-dresses opposed up, and the ale set out in the dining-room, and the cosette of hot shoare washt from the kitchen.
Inadvertent poetic prose in spamblogs | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Wherfore we lay off San Salvador to the windward, but I lyked it not so well, ther being no convenyent shoare but onely great clyffes.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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Those whom their harts enabled to attempt, He puts a shoare to make supplie for neede; Those whom long sicknes taught of death contempt, He visits, and from _Ioues_ great Booke doth reede The balme which mortall poysen doth exempt; Those whom new breathing health like sucklings feed, Hie to the sands, and sporting on the same, Finde libertie, the liues best liuing flame.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Who at the last, the weather being changed, & the winds blowing at the North, being transported again to the shoare, in this their ship of ice, haue returned home in safety: some of which number are aliue at this day.
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Spaine, for the furnishing of his forces intended against England, al which we burned, hauing dealt fauourably with the men and sent them on shoare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At 12. 13. and 10. fadome we cast anchor, so that wee might behold much people both on the shoare and vpon the wals of the town: from the castle and town both, they shot mightely with their great ordinance into our fleet, so that there were aboue 200. cannon shot discharged, wherewith some of our ships were hit, but not one man lost, and little hurt done otherwise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And I am able to reckon vp a great many of our countnmen who in the very act of hunting, wandring somewhat farre from the shoare (the ice being dispersed by westerne winds) & for the space of many leagues resting vpon the ice, being chased with the violence of the tempest, & some whole daies
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The next morning there came vnto vs a boate from the shoare with a flagge of truce, wherein were three of the chiefe men of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Not farre from these mountaines (the three forenamed) declining to the sea shoare, there be foure fountaines of a most contrary nature betweene themselues.
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Rocke, some twentte or thirtie leagues off the shoare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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