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  • In other news, the Pope announced that Henry the Eighth's marriages never occurred.

    Diane Lee finally is removed Michael Turton 2009

  • Yes, I've always wondered which of Henry the Eighth's wives I resembled the most.

    QUIZ: Which wife of Henry the Eighth are you? Suzanne 2006

  • "Of course," the First Speaker agreed easily and indicated that the floor was now Eighth's.

    Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

  • Anne Boleyn was lodged in Henry the Eighth's Court with the train of a Queen; and Francis the First made her the same presents, and paid her the same honours as if she had been really so: in a word, after a passion of nine year's continuance King Henry married her, without waiting for the dissolving of his first marriage.

    The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de 1951

  • Eighth's reign; and there are now red, white, and yellow cultivated varieties of the berry.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Once it was destroyed by Danes; twice consumed by fire; it escaped the general downfal of abbies, in Hen. the Eighth's time, though not without the loss of some of her fairest manners; and yet what that king took away in revenues, he added to it in dignity, by converting it from an abbey into a cathedral church.

    The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips

  • The Arisian compressed upon the Eighth's brain a searing force which sent shrieking waves of pain throughout all nearby space.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • In England, Holbein found a friend and patron in Sir Thomas More, -- Henry the Eighth's great Lord Chancellor; and a sight of some of his works won him, ere long, the favor of the King himself.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

  • In Henry the Eighth's day, ridiculous little images made from Bryony roots, cut into the figure of a man, and with grains of millet inserted into the face as eyes, the same being known as pappettes or mammettes, were accredited with magical powers, and fetched high prices with simple folk.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Anne of Cleves, one of Henry the Eighth's wives, wore such a wreath at her wedding; and when people could afford it, the Rosemary branch presented to each guest was richly gilded.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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