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How rare is it to meet with a man that smarteth or bleedeth with the
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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"Old Bruin's wound smarteth him sore," Gascoyne observed, as the two lads walked across the armory court.
Men of Iron 1891
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"Old Bruin's wound smarteth him sore," Gascoyne observed, as the two lads walked across the armory court.
Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882
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There are others in the world — these are no flimflam stories, nor tales of a tub — who, being much troubled with the toothache, after they had spent their goods upon physicians without receiving at all any ease of their pain, have found no more ready remedy than to put the said Chronicles betwixt two pieces of linen cloth made somewhat hot, and so apply them to the place that smarteth, sinapizing them with a little powder of projection, otherwise called doribus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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There are others in the world — these are no flimflam stories, nor tales of a tub — who, being much troubled with the toothache, after they had spent their goods upon physicians without receiving at all any ease of their pain, have found no more ready remedy than to put the said Chronicles betwixt two pieces of linen cloth made somewhat hot, and so apply them to the place that smarteth, sinapizing them with a little powder of projection, otherwise called doribus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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There are others in the world -- these are no flimflam stories, nor tales of a tub -- who, being much troubled with the toothache, after they had spent their goods upon physicians without receiving at all any ease of their pain, have found no more ready remedy than to put the said Chronicles betwixt two pieces of linen cloth made somewhat hot, and so apply them to the place that smarteth, sinapizing them with a little powder of projection, otherwise called doribus.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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"Now (says bishop Hall) Joab smarteth for a loyal disobedience.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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