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Also they haue iackets, like vnto the vpper vestment of a deacon, sauing that the sleeues are somewhat streighter.
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Ieroslaus the vpper hand, when we were abroad in their companie.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Moreouer I trauelled with a certaine company of Carauans toward vpper India: and in the way, after many days iourney, I came vnto the citie of the three wise men called Cassan [Or Cassibin.], which is a noble and renowmed city, sauing that the
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But vpon the midst of the vpper parte thereof, they lay their saddles and other hard things there, also doe the men themselues sit.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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So that euen the very Tartars assigned to giue attendance vnto them, were they neuer so base, would alwaies goe before them, and take the vpper hand of them, yea, and sometimes would constraine them to sit behinde their backes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Platter faced and beardlesse, sauyng vpon the vpper lippe, and a litle about the poincte of the chinne thei haue a feawe heares as it were pricked in with Bodkins.
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The poorer sort make their vpper gowne of dogs or of goats skins.
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The vpper part of their helmet is of iron or steele, but that part which compasseth about the necke and the throate is of leather.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Bantam, they came euery day in great companies into our shippes, and there set out their wares to sel, as silkes, sowing silkes, and porselines, so that our vpper deckes were full of pedlers, that wee could hardly walke vpon the hatches.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The vpper part onely of this shippe was burnt, and an the persons therein contained (except a very few) were consumed with fire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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