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He now needs decoding: looking up "" fardels '' and "" bodkin, '' disentangling syntax: "" How in my words somever she be shent, '' says Hamlet before confronting his mother, "" To give them seals, never, my soul, consent! ''
Shakespeare 2008
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Fair damosel, give me goodly language, and then my care is past, for what knights somever they be, I care not, nor I doubt them not.
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And therefore, my fellows, said Sir Launcelot, I pray you all that ye will be of good heart in what need somever I stand, for now is war come to us all.
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Then Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, let cry what knight somever he were that smote down Sir Palomides should have his damosel to himself.
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Launcelot or Sir Tristram, what knight somever he be.
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Everybody went 'round like this: (here she took up her apron and buried her face in it) -- they kivered their face with what-somever they had in their hands that would ketch the tears.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Fair damosel, give me goodly language, and then my care is past, for what knights somever they be, I care not, nor I doubt them not.
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Them niggurs hez been eyther clost arter 'im, in view o' the critter, or follerin 'im on the trail -- the one or the t'other -- an which' taint possyble to tell wi 'this hyur sign no-how-cum-somever.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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How somever, you can make it up to him with a pudding.
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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How somever, you can make it up to him with a pudding.
Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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