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Duz dis meen taht we hasta putte flaymyngoez ADN ruustres iyn teh frunt yawrds az lawne oarnimints?
KFC witness - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Their Synagogue is in forme round, and the people sit round about it, and in the midst, there is a place for him that readeth to the rest: as for their apparell, all of them weare a large white lawne ouer their garments, which reacheth from their head, downe to the ground.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In Sommer they goe often with kerchiefffes of fine white lawne, or cambricke, fastned vnder the chinne, with two long tassels pendent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The satirical Dekker might class "tobacconists" with "feather-makers, cobweb-lawne-weavers, perfumers, young country gentlemen and fools," but he bears invaluable witness to the devotion of the fashionable men of the day to the "costlye and gentleman-like Smoak."
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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Her head is variously drest, the one-half hooded with downy blackish feathers; the other perfectly naked, of a whitish hue, as if a transparent lawne had covered it.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Various 1841
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In Sommer they goe often with kerchiefffes of fine white lawne, or cambricke, fastned vnder the chinne, with two long tassels pendent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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1252: Like Scarlet hid in lawne, easily spide through.
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a fisher: I saw there a meeke and tame beare, which in matron habite was carried on a stoole: An Ape with a bonet on his head, and covered with lawne, resemling a shepheard, and bearing a cup of gold in his hand: an
The Golden Asse 1566
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