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  • Hake, which is not one of the most delicate fish, can be made excellent if stewed in the following sauce: A quart of milk to which you have added

    The Belgian Cookbook Various

  • North of Monhegan island lies a patch called the Hake

    Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

  • They were wild, small, shaggy creatures, about the same height -- the man was called Hake, the woman Haekia.

    Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • He was called Hake, the berserk of Hadeland, and was comparatively short in stature, but looked shorter than he really was, in consequence of the unnatural breadth and bulk of his chest and shoulders.

    Erling the Bold 1859

  • "I will call Hake to our council; the youth, I have observed, is a deep thinker, and clear-sighted."

    The Norsemen in the West 1859

  • The poorly clad he found to be generous and truthful, and from all of them he chose "Hake" for his "Koda" (friend).

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux Marie L. McLaughlin

  • The other boy, "Hake" (meaning last born), was an orphan and lived with his old grandmother, who was very destitute, and consequently could not dress the boy in fine raiment.

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux Marie L. McLaughlin

  • The other boy, "Hake" (meaning last born), was an orphan and lived with his old grandmother, who was very destitute, and consequently could not dress the boy in fine raiment.

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux 1916

  • The poorly clad he found to be generous and truthful, and from all of them he chose "Hake" for his "Koda" (friend).

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux 1916

  • "Hake," whispered Heika to his brother that night, as they sat down together in the little sleeping-closet off Leif's hall, that had been allotted to their use, "all my hopes and plans were on the point of being ruined to-day."

    The Norsemen in the West 1859

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