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  • Your wines shalbe solde by hogs heads, pipes or buttes, but not by quartes nor pintes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • They were short, ship bows, stout and maneuverable, easy to use n croweded quartes, easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat.

    Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982

  • France, les septièmes garçons, nez de légitimes mariages, sans que la suitte des sept ait esté interrompue par la naissance d'aucune fille, peuvent aussi guérir des fièvres tierces, des fièvres quartes, at mesme des écrouelles, après avoir jeûné trois ou neuf jours avant que de toucher les malades.

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

  • Il avait les quartes, pour en guérir prend conseil d'une sorcière, laquelle lui fait une potion d'une once de semences d'orties, de deux drachmes de cantharides, d'une drachme et demi de caboule et autres, ce qui le rendit si furieux à l'acte vénérien que sa femme nous jura son Dieu, _qu'il l'avait chevauchée, dans deux mois, quatre vingt sept fois, sans y comprendre plus de dix fois qu'il s'était_ corrompu lui-même.

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

  • Jefferson's and Maddisons river's can not be navagated thro the rocky mountains in consequence of falls and rapids, and as a confirmation of the fact we discovered that there were no Salmon in Clark's river, which is not the Case in the S.E. branch of the Columbia altho it is not navagable. added to this, the Indians of different quartes further inform us, that Clark's river runs in the direction of the Rocky

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • ∗ Recherches sur la determination d'une hyperbole équilatèau moyen de quartes conditions don - nées (Paris, 1820).

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  • Your wines shalbe solde by hogs heads, pipes or buttes, but not by quartes nor pintes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Pour lui, il va sans peine jusqu'à dix ou douze grondils de vin: ce qui fait six ou sept quartes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Pd for wyn for the communion at eilur, iij quartes of manef$ % and ix quartes of claret wyne, iiiis. 6d.

    The Monthly Review 1795

  • Beinge asked further whether there was not a mutynie in the said Shipp the said voyadge by some of the companie of the said Shipp against the M'r, and of the manner and occasion thereof and by whome saythe that their victualls were soe scante that they had but two quartes of meale allowed to serve xxij men for a day, and that the M'r had bread and cheese and aquavite in his cabon and called some of the companie whome he favoured to eate and drinke with him in his cabon whereuppon those that had nothinge did grudge and mutynye both against the M'r and those that he gave bread and drinke unto, the begynning whereof was thus viz't.

    Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

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