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- adjective Obsolete form of
very .
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Examples
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C-232, full of his rich imaginings, signifying less than nothing, as usual when trapped (all columnists 'prerogative, I admit), but it is worth quoting this particular rêverie, which is his last redoubt when routed reason: "The implications are alarming - not only a general decline in the quality of the judges, but the effective exclusion of the West from consideration."
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MEDLARS a kind of verie good fruit, so called by vs chieflie for these respectes: first in that they are not good vntill they be rotten: then in that they open at the head as our medlars, and are about the same bignesse: otherwise in taste and colour they are farre differẽt: for they are as red as cheries and very sweet: but whereas the cherie is sharpe sweet, they are lushious sweet.
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MEDLARS a kind of verie good fruit, so called by vs chieflie for these respectes: first in that they are not good vntill they be rotten: then in that they open at the head as our medlars, and are about the same bignesse: otherwise in taste and colour they are farre differêt: for they are as red as cheries and very sweet: but whereas the cherie is sharpe sweet, they are lushious sweet.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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Kitteh iz verie sleepay. he collapsed befor he got tew teh kitteh bed.
I will nap… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Ai nawt finkso kitteh wud lai beein cooped up in sootcase fur verie long.
I is not cat,I is sweater. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Bebe kitteh verie tired. mush chasin teh toys from Prezunts dai, and bockes an krinklie papr an ribonz. jus gonna close eyz for minutszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
RIIIIIICOLAAAAA - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Next make a vessel of an oval formne, as broad at the bottome as at the top, ii foote deep, one foote broad, xvi inches long, place this verie close to your seat, like the pot of a close stool, let the oval incline decline, in modern usage to the right hand.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Next make a vessel of an oval formne, as broad at the bottome as at the top, ii foote deep, one foote broad, xvi inches long, place this verie close to your seat, like the pot of a close stool, let the oval incline decline, in modern usage to the right hand.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Butt this verie morninge, I can assur yowe, hir ladishippe is gon with yowre spowse to Tonbrigge; and theire they are to take lodgings, or a hous; and Mr.B. is after to come to town, and settel matters to go downe to hir, where they are to liue as man and wiffe.
Pamela 2006
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Glasgow, Stirling, and Finlarig, to march in the night by different routes, in order to surprise him and his men in their houses, which would have its effect certainly, if the great rains that happened to fall that verie night had not retarded the march of the troops, so as some of the parties came too late to the stations that they were ordered for.
Rob Roy 2005
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