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  • Within the saide Garland I beheld a rough Milche Gote, [A] which a little child did suck, sitting vnder hir side vpon his fleshie young legges one streight foorth, and the other retract and bowed vnder him.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • From hir head hir loose tresses laye wauing vppon the suppressed couering, fowlded and plited and as it were scorning the haires of the inglomatede cloth, hir thighes of a conueniente bignes and hir fleshie knees somwhat bending vpp, and retract towardes hir.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • He was of bodie fleshie and strong, and could abide verie patientlie the displesures both of cold and heat, he had a large head, a broad breast,

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

  • Epitome, and do, as certaine wise men do, that be ouer fat and fleshie: who leauing their owne full and plentifull table, go to soiorne abrode from home for a while, at the temperate diet of some sober man: and so by litle and litle, cut away the grosnesse that is in them.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • _Epitome_, and do, as certaine wise men do, that be ouer fat and fleshie: who leauing their owne full and plentifull table, go to soiorne abrode from home for a while, at the temperate diet of some sober man: and so by litle and litle, cut away the grosnesse that is in them.

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • * GET WITH IT DAD: everyone has a 3D interactive immersive virtual reality skin-fleshie in them.

    FreakyTrigger 2009

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