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  • So cõforting her as well as he could, at laste burst oute in teares, and wente from her downe into the court, wher wer walking the Lord of Tame [Sir John Williams], and Sir Henry Benifield: and he staieng asyde the Lord of Tame ... he spake on this wise: ...

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • 1292: (Which vn-reuerst stands in effectuall force) 1293: A Sea of melting pearle, which some call teares;

    Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • EE: But back to your other life - Is it really true you were bored to teares while doing research for your latest - SWEETIE'S DIAMONDS?

    ON THE BUBBLE WITH RAYMOND BENSON aka JAMES BOND! 2006

  • EE: But back to your other life - Is it really true you were bored to teares while doing research for your latest - SWEETIE'S DIAMONDS?

    November 2006 2006

  • The poore gentlewoman told me with many teares, that her husband being none of the frugallest men (and indeed he was a spendthrift), she had hid that gold without his, knowledge, to make use of it as she had occasion, especiallie when she lay in; and conjured me, as I lovd the King (for whom her husband and she had suffered much), not to detaine her gold.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • If all the body were eye, argues the Apostle in another place; * why, here all the body was eye; every pore of his body made an eye by teares of blood, and every inch of his body made an eye by their bloody scourges.

    Read it and weep dudemanflab 2007

  • And if Christs looking upon Peter, made Peter weep, shall not his looking upon us here, with teares in his eyes, such teares in such eyes, springs of teares, rivers of teares, seas of teares make us weep too?

    Read it and weep dudemanflab 2007

  • Vpon Easter day, hauing said our praiers, and taken a slender breakfast, in the company of two Tartars, which were assigned vnto vs by Corensa, we departed with many teares, not knowing whether we went to death or to life.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • In the midst of this mountain there is a most beautiful plain, wherin is a litle lake conteining great plenty of water, which water the inhabitants report to haue proceeded from the teares of Adam and Eue: howbeit I proued that to be false, because I saw the water flow in the lake.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Whereof he kept for himselfe and for the lad, and 16. he gaue vnto the man of God for vs. And thus were we parted asunder with teares: he returning vnto the court of

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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