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Obs. a1529 SKELTON Col. Cloute 400 [The nuns] Must cast vp theyr blacke vayles, And set vp theyr fucke sayles, To catch wynde with their ventales.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Nex tyme dis heppins, BT wil wynde up az shredid stuffyng peeces!
Note to self: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ai has a sad bout Missus Wiggly; Ai nebber thot her wud wynde up dis waye!
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Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales".
Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible Rus Bowden 2007
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The .xii. if the wynde be in the east, and that is worste.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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The west and the north wynde ben good, but the south is best.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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“You snarle yourself into so many and heynouse absurdities, as you shall never be able to wynde yourself oute.” —
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When the wynde bloweth from the northeast, then the sand riseth and is driuen against a certayne mountayne, which is an arme of the mount
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Therefore after three days, gyuyng wynde to our sayles, we entered into the Redde Sea, otherwise named Mare
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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"Agnes, the wyf of John Wyse, als Winkam John Wyse, presented to be a medicioner for the waffc of an yll wynde, and for the fayryes."
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