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For the natarall Philosophers doe teach, That it is common to all forcible flames to be quenched with dry things, and nourished with moiste: whereupon, euen blacksmithes, by sprinckling on of water, vse to quicken and strengthen their fire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the natarall Philosophers doe teach, That it is common to all forcible flames to be quenched with dry things, and nourished with moiste: whereupon, euen blacksmithes, by sprinckling on of water, vse to quicken and strengthen their fire.
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Were it of hoot or cold, or moiste or drye; who knew by heart Hippocrates and Galen, but was on bad terms with the
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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"The moone is founde, by plaine experience, to beare her greatest stroke uppon the seas, likewise in all things that are moiste, and by consequence in the braines of man."
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Ful streite y-teyd, 21 and shoos ful moiste and newe.
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Jhesus sat at the mete in the hous of the Farisee, she broughte an alabastre box of oynement, and sche stood bihynde bisidis hise feet, and bigan to moiste hise feet with teeris, and wypide with the heeris of hir heed, and kiste hise feet, and anoyntide with oynement.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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For the natarall Philosophers doe teach, That it is common to all forcible flames to be quenched with dry things, and nourished with moiste: whereupon, euen blacksmithes, by sprinckling on of water, vse to quicken and strengthen their fire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Prince, than with moiste licour extinguishe the same, and making him to geue ouer the enterprise, she fiercely sayd unto him: “How now, (Sir
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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