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For proofe whereof, faire company, in a contrary kinde I will shew you the subtill cunning of one, who (perhaps) may bee reputed of lesse reckning then Massetto; and yet he went beyond a King, that thought himselfe to be a much wiser man.
The Decameron 2004
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After all, I cannot get myself to belive that they will actually come to us in haste, and if they do they may mistake their reckning.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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They would face their day of reckning and gusee what they will probably still rave and rant about the same things.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2010
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I am ill at reckning, it fits the spirit of a Tapster.
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1733: Informes the Tapster to inflame the reckning:
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280: May stand in number, though in reckning none.
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2143: The sence of reckning of th 'opposed numbers:
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Oh, by my purty, but I was as near putting a key note to one of their whistles, as two tin pinnies, only, that I was jalous iv your own safety, and the beauty by your side at that same reckning. "
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