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But by and by comes by agreement Mr. Reeves, and after him Mr. Spong, and all day with them, both before and after dinner, till ten o'clock at night, upon opticke enquiries, he bringing me a frame he closes on, to see how the rays of light do cut one another, and in a darke room with smoake, which is very pretty.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668
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But by and by comes by agreement Mr. Reeves, and after him Mr. Spong, and all day with them, both before and after dinner, till ten o'clock at night, upon opticke enquiries, he bringing me a frame he closes on, to see how the rays of light do cut one another, and in a darke room with smoake, which is very pretty.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666
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Iyf sumefing guud, wel tehn yuu kan jes relaxx, puttes yuur feets up adn smoake a seegar!
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They make of their oxe skins great bladders or bags, which they doe wonderfully dry in the smoake.
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Then the friers sprinkled the sayd fire with holy water, casting the idols into it the second time, and with that the deuils fled in the likenesse of blacke smoake, and the idols still remained till they were consumed vnto ashes.
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Shee seeing her Husband to bee much moved, excused the matter thus: that (but a little while before) shee had whited certaine linnen with the smoake of brimstone, as it is a usuall thing to doe, and then set the Pan into that spare place, because it should not bee offensive to us.
The Decameron 2004
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Whereupon it came to passe, that the men and the horses were burnt with wilde fire, and the ayre was darkened with smoake.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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But in the middest of the toppes thereof, they haue a window open to conuey the light in and the smoake out.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Commonly they haue no chimnies in their houses, excepting them of the better sort, so that the smoake was very troublsom to vs, while we continued there; Their fewell is turfes, which they haue very good, and whinnes or furres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iaua, not far from Pannorocan, where she shotte off three peeces, at the which warning wee made thither with our boates, and by the helpe of God got her off againe: There we saw a high hil that burnt, vnder and aboue the fire hauing a great smoake, most strange to behold.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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