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Return sae dowf and wearie O! How noble that is, how natural, how unconsciously Greek!
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Affrike hath also many sondrie beastes, and Dragones that lye in awaite for the beastes, and when thei se time, so bewrappe and wreathe them aboute, that takyng fro theim the vse of their ioynctes, thei wearie them and kille theim.
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Her brethren also waxed wearie of this carriage in her; and having very often reproved her for it, without any other alteration in her: at length, they closely stole away the potte of Basile from her, for which she made infinite wofull lamentations, earnestly entreating to have it restored againe, avouching that she could not live without it.
The Decameron 2004
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And throwing it a side, entended no further to wearie my self therwithall, at the leaste vntill I mighte finde a booke of a bettre impression.
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And being wearie of so doing, they ran againe according to their wonted manner.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Being already well stept into yeares, but yet not wearie
The Decameron 2004
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Nunne, Which barrains earth of al what earth desires Euen in the month that from _Augustus_ wonne, His sacred name which vnto heauen aspires, And on the last of his ten trebled days, When wearie labour new refresh assayes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They then waxe wearie streight, and they which did before
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When as therefore, being carried with a youthful heat and lustie humour, I began to be wearie euen of this place, wherein
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I am wearie to stay any longer in this matter: onely, because I haue to doe with
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