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Examples
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Sol Gills, lay to, my lad, upon your own wines and fig – trees like a taut ould patriark as you are, and overhaul them there adwentures
Dombey and Son 2007
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And the patriark of Seynt Thomas is there, as is the Pope here.
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In the chirche of Seynt Sepulchre was wont to ben chanouns of the ordre of Seynt Augustyn, and hadden a priour; but the patriark was here sovereygne.
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In that town dwelled Abraham the patriark, a long tyme.
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In Jerusalem was wont to be a patriark, and erchebysshoppes and bisshoppes abouten in the contree.
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And thei seyn, that here patriark hathe as meche power over the see as the Pope hathe on this syde the see.
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And the patriark of Seynt Thomas is there, as is the Pope here.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In Jerusalem was wont to be a patriark, and erchebysshoppes and bisshoppes abouten in the contree.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In that town dwelled Abraham the patriark, a long tyme.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thei seyn, that here patriark hathe as meche power over the see as the Pope hathe on this syde the see.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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