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Buddy wud lurve to haz sum nip in peece of sheepyskinz, and to haz teh lotz of teh wooll fings.
When fleas go unchecked - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The poorer sort do line their clothes with cotton cloth which is made of the finest wooll they can pick out, and of the courser part of the said wool, they make felt to couer their houses and their chests, and for their bedding also.
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The good wife or mistresse of the house placeth aloft at her beds feete, on the right hand, the skinne of a Kidde stuffed with wooll or some other matter, and neare vnto that a little image or puppet looking towards the maidens and women.
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And it was greatly suspected so to be, because alwayes when Cuyne came forth out of the tent, he had a noyse of musicke, and was bowed vnto, or honoured with faire wands, hauing purple wooll vpon the tops of them, and that, so long as he remained abroad: which seruice was performed to none of the other Dukes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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They make also of the said felt couerings for their stooles, and caps to defende their heads from the weather: for all which purposes they spend a great quantity of their wooll.
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Men of other countries also weare cloth of sheepes wooll, although it be more finely wrought.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Indians doe bring fine whites, which the Tartars do all roll about their heads, and al other kinds of whites, which serue for apparell made of cotton wooll and crasko, but golde, siluer, precious stones, and spices they bring none.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The King vnto his Collectors of custome, for wooll and woollen fels, in his port of London, greeting.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is a citie in Syria named Aleppo, wherein coninually are many Venetians dwelling, besides other that come yeerely and there buy wools, gals, tallow, saffron, skins, cotton wooll, and other wares, and great store of spices.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And it was greatly suspected so to be, because alwayes when Cuyne came forth out of the tent, he had a noyse of musicke, and was bowed vnto, or honoured with faire wands, hauing purple wooll vpon the tops of them, and that, so long as he remained abroad: which seruice was performed to none of the other Dukes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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