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September 3, 2008 at 9:57 am yoo nawt sellin mii stowlen hunnert dollar towe, r u?
PUMA - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
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Southeast with very much wind, raine and fogge, and very great store of ice a sea boorde: so we lay to the Southwest to attaine to one of the Islands to harbour vs if the weather did so extremely continue and to take in our boate, thinking it meete so to doe, and not to towe her in such weather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 6. of Iuly our Admirall the Mauritius had two of his mastes blowne ouerboord: for which cause we were contrained to towe him along.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also the prices of wares here at this present are, bale flaxe twenty pound the packe and better, towe flaxe twentie eight pound the hundred, traine oyle at nine pound the tunne, waxe at foure pound the hundred, tallow at sixteen shillings the hundred, cables and ropes very deare: as yet there are no shippes come out of Danske.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The flame of mount Hecla will not burne towe (which is most apt for the wieke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water: and by the same force that bullets are discharged out of warlike engines with vs, from thence are great stones cast foorth into the aire, by reason of the mixture of colde, and fire, and brimstone.
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The flame of mount Hecla will not burne towe (which is most apt for the wieke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water: and by the same force that bullets are discharged out of warlike engines with vs, from thence are great stones cast foorth into the aire, by reason of the mixture of colde, and fire, and brimstone.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For towe such captayns as slayne wear thear on the March-parti shall never be non.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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[Yaceell] is a brode river, about 35 legs [44] att the mouth. the towne lieth Near 40 leagues up the River. about the middle of August one night, as the greate shipp had us in a towe, we saw a saile in the darke. wee lett goe their towe, and made what saile we could to her, comes in half a hower up with her, and ha'ls her.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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