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Roses, passing sweet, like unto our mucke roses in forme, raspases, a berry which we call harts, good and holesome to eat.
The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901
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The ground they neuer fatten with mucke, dounge or any other thing; neither plow nor digge it as we in England, but onely prepare it in sort as followeth.
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The ground they neuer fatten with mucke, dounge or any other thing; neither plow nor digge it as we in England, but onely prepare it in sort as followeth.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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The ground they neuer fatten with mucke, dung, or any other thing, neither plow nor digge it as we in England, but onely prepare it in sort as followeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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"It is a wives occupacion to winow al maner of cornes, to make malte, wash & wring, to make hey, to shere corne, & in time of neede to helpe her husbande to fyll the mucke wayne or donge carte, dryve the plough, to lode hay corne & such other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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