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  • Washington has opposed Iran's recent offer to ship 1,200 kilos of enriched uranium to Turke

    End Iran's Nuclear Charade 2010

  • Let the suits of the masquers be graceful, and such as become the person, when the vizors are off; not after examples of known attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners, and the like.

    The Essays 2007

  • First, the Turke with his sword, what landes, nations, and countreys, what empires, kingdomes, and provinces, with cities innumerable hath he wonne, not from us but from Thee!

    Archive 2004-06-06 Laban 2004

  • First, the Turke with his sword, what landes, nations, and countreys, what empires, kingdomes, and provinces, with cities innumerable hath he wonne, not from us but from Thee!

    Archive 2004-09-05 Laban 2004

  • "What do you mean, Turke —" Antoine saw her face in the mirror and noticed a large bruise that covered one eye and stained her cheekbone an angry red.

    Touch of Evil 2006

  • First, the Turke with his sword, what landes, nations, and countreys, what empires, kingdomes, and provinces, with cities innumerable hath he wonne, not from us but from Thee!

    A New Liberal Myth And Two Neat Sites Laban 2004

  • So that, within the space of one yeare, hee had robd and taken so many Gallies from the Turke; that he found himselfe well recovered, not onely of all his losses by Merchandize, but likewise his wealth was wholly redoubled.

    The Decameron 2004

  • First, the Turke with his sword, what landes, nations, and countreys, what empires, kingdomes, and provinces, with cities innumerable hath he wonne, not from us but from Thee!

    Islamophobia Part 734 Laban 2004

  • And it is to be noted that the 28 day of the same moneth the great Turke in person passed le Fisco a hauen in the maine land with a galley and a fust, and arriued about noone, where his army lay, the which day may be called unhappie for

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Which made answere that they sawe and knew well that the towne was lost for certaine reasons that were told them: by occasion whereof they had gainesaid the ordinance of the sayd lord, and sayd that they had bene wrong enformed of diuers things: and on the other side, that they feared that the Turke would not hold his word.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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