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'Conies', Those that we haue seen & al that we can heare of are of a grey colour like vnto hares: in some places there are such plentie that all the people of some townes make them mantles of the furre or flue of the skinnes of those they vsually take.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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The Conies Britan-norum sat at the top of this round table, his chair larger and more ornately carved than the backless ones in which we of lesser rank were seated.
Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996
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When Jack-fish, Sucker, Conies, and Trout are there, they take them as a variant; but on Whitefish, as on
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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He sent us every day a brase or two of fat Bucks, Conies, Hares, Fish and best of the world.
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This Island had many goodly woodes full of Deere, Conies, Hares, and Fowle, even in the middest of Summer in incredible abundance.
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The victuals which the people of this countrey haue, is Maiz, whereof they haue great store, and also small white Pease: and Venison, which by all likelyhood they feede vpon, (though they say no) for wee found many skinnes of Deere, of Hares, and Conies.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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Conies, Those that we haue seen & al that we can heare of are of a grey colour like vnto hares: in some places there are such plẽtie that all the people of some townes make them mantles of the furre or flue of the skinnes of those they vsually take.
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Conies, which are small animals, somewhat resembling short-eared rabbits, but which from their dentition and skeleton are allied to the rhinoceros and tapir.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Recipes (for Hares and Conies in Civeye, and for Doucettes) 146
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Recipes (for Hares and Conies in Civeye, and for Doucettes) 146
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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