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  • “The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adioining regions neere eighteene yeeres.”

    Essays 2007

  • Lamberto, the second Theobaldo, and the third Agolanto, all goodly and gracefull youths: howbeit, the eldest had not compleated eighteene yeares, when Signior Theobaldo the Father deceased, who left them all his goods and inheritances.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And they answered mee that of stage-players, musicians, and such like, there were eighteene Thuman at the least, and that the keepers of dogs, beasts and foules were fifteene Thuman, and the physicians for the emperours body were foure hundred; the Christians also were eight in number, together with one Saracen.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • She among them that was most entred into yeares, exceeded not eight and twenty; and the yongest was no lesse then eighteene; being of Noble descent, faire forme, adorned with exquisite behaviour, and gracious modesty.

    The Decameron 2004

  • There are three or foure Barkes that make consort together, which are like to our litle Pilot boates, and a litle lesse, there goe seuen or eight men in a boate: and I haue seene in a morning a great number of them goe out, and anker in fifteene or eighteene fadome of water, which is the Ordinarie depth of all that coast.

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

  • Thus when prince Edward had beene eighteene moneths in Acra, he tooke shipping about the Assumption of our Lady, as we call it, returning homeward, and after seuen weekes he arriued in Sicilia at

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

  • The Iland of Lanzarota standeth eighteene leagues distant from grand Canaria Southeastward.

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

  • Not finding camels here, we were constrained to vnlade our goods, and hired an hundred asses to cary our marchandises onely to New Babylon ouera short desert, in crossing whereof we spent eighteene houres trauelling by night, and part of the morning, to auoid the great heat.

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

  • Captaine of the Pilgrimes, to whom the Grand Signior giueth euery voyage eighteene purses, conteyning each of them sixe hundred twentie and fiue ducates of golde, and these be for the behoofe of the Carouan, and also to doe almes vnto the needfull pilgrimes.

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

  • The twenty foure we sayled by the sholdes of Brasile lying vnder eighteene degrees of Southerly Latitude.

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

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