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  • noun Plural form of soule.

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Examples

  • The most barbarous peoples, it was said for centuries, are inevitably charmed by harmonious sound, an opinion repeated by John Case in his Praise of Musicke (1586, p. 42): the infant, destitute of reason, is stilled by the songs of his nurse; ploughmen and carters “are by the instinct of their harmonicall soules compelled to frame their breath into a whistle,” which delights not man alone but the oxen and horses.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

  • Marrie that) that is, their soules, which by popish Exorcismes & practises they damme to hell.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • I've already commented on your amazing soules on Flickr.

    Sole Monday (and a giveaway) Katy 2008

  • Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.

    Death Has Shaken All of Us This Week... johnny_mango 2005

  • Christ giveth us his very body and bloud and really and truely performs in us his promise in feeding our soules unto eternal life.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Christ giveth us his very body and bloud and really and truely performs in us his promise in feeding our soules unto eternal life.

    Richard Montagu (1577-1641) Real Presence 2007

  • We, poore soules goe to wracke, and from these coastes be remoued,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The blood of so many hundred thousand soules of Protestants and Papists, split in the Wars of present and former Ages, for their respective Consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace....

    Constitutional blood. Ann Althouse 2005

  • They are (quoth he) the soules of noble men which we do here feed, for the loue of God who gouerneth the world: and as a man was honorable or noble in this life, so his soule after death, entreth into the body of some excellent beast or other, but the soules of simple and rusticall people do possesse the bodies of more vile and brutish creatures.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • And thei answerde me and seyde, that thei hadde no pore men amonges hem, in that contree: and thoughe it had ben so, that pore men had ben among hem, zit were it gretter almesse, to zeven it to tho soules, that don there here penance.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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