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Clymbyng oaver awl tohse rokks wil slowe hims daown ebben moar;
slow - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Mommeh wud go over tu teh possum, niec and slowe, speeking gently and soffly tu it.
*fa la la la la - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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When they chance to come at any bad passage, they let them loose, and guide them ouer one by one: for they goe a slowe pace, as fast as a lambe or an oxe can walke.
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When they chance to come at any bad passage, they let them loose, and guide them ouer one by one: for they goe a slowe pace, as fast as a lambe or an oxe can walke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And then making an ende of her short and sweet speech, both of vs making forward, our pace neither too fast nor too slowe, but in a measure; I thought thus, and thus discoursing with my selfe.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The slowe commyng of The - mistocles, was blamed of the Lacedemonians: but Themi - stocles excused hymself, partly infirmitie of bodie, lettyng his commyng, and the expectacion of other, accompaignied with hym in this Embassage.
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The feynte rodde leme slowe creepeth oere the greene,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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But with none I remember mine eares were at any time more loden, then when (ether angred with slowe paiment, or mooved with our learner-like admiration,) he exercised his speech in the prayse of his facultie.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Stott and slowe hym and ete hym and no mends will make etc.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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[128] Caxton has: "It happed she sayde that other whyle deuoute feruour of a sowle leuyng oure lorde Jhesu other by somme certeyne synne, or ellys by newe sotyll temptacyons of the fende wexyth dull and slowe, and other whyle it is y-brought to veray coldenesse."
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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