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  • We assume he (or she, but let's go with he) delights in his sheer will-to-dominate, that there is a feeling of power and concomitant jouissance (Hobbes's 'suddaine glory') in bullying others.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • We assume he (or she, but let's go with he) delights in his sheer will-to-dominate, that there is a feeling of power and concomitant jouissance (Hobbes's 'suddaine glory') in bullying others.

    Bullies Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • And yet notwithstanding all this, in the night time while they had this respite to pause, and deliberate about the peacemaking, there were diuers great and suddaine alarms giuen: which did breed some great outrages and disorder in the towne.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The Gallies, seeing this suddaine great victorious ouerthrow, made all the hast they could toward the Bridge called Puente de Sua鏾, and there shrowded themselues in such sort as our shippes could not by any meanes possible come nigh them for lacke of water.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The 20 day the wind was at Northeast, and Northnortheast: at 7 in the morning we had 30 fadomes blacke oze: at twelue of the clocke we were vpon the suddaine in shoale water, among great sands and could find no way out.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Corrigidor with three or foure of his men: but Master Foster seeing this great multitude desired that there might no more come aboord, but that the rest should stay in their boates, which was granted: neuerthelesse they tooke small heede of these wordes; for on a suddaine they came foorth of the boate, entring the shippe, euery

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • From the 26. til the 2. of October, they tooke into the ship, bread, water, and other necessary prouision for their sea store: the said 2. day of October, the Factors were commanded vpon the suddaine to auoide their house, and get them with their prouision out of the towne: Whereupon they were constrained to remoue and carry their things to the sea side against the ship, and remained there all the night.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Whereupon grew the word of Sortes Vergilianae, when by suddaine opening Virgils Booke, they lighted uppon some verse of his, as it is reported by many, whereof the Histories of the Emperours lives are full.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • [Footnote: Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, Bk. 2.] "Some looked for building great houses, and such pleasant situations for them as themselves had fancied, as if they would be great men and rich all of a suddaine; but they proved castles in air."

    The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble

  • Issuing and sending foorth in diuers places small streames of water, pyppling and slyding downe vpon the Amber grauell in theyr crooking Channels heere and there, by some suddaine fall making a still continued noyse, to great pleasure moystning the open fieldes, and making the shadowed places vnder the leaffye Trees, coole and fresh.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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