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I say take them out and teach theam a valuable lesson.
The Sudan Airstrike Mystery - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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I say take them out and teach theam a valuable lesson.
The Sudan Airstrike Mystery - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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QUOTATION: There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Quotations 1919
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The result was that, apparently, private courts were set up typified in England by the alliterative jingle "sac and soc, toll and theam, and infangenthef".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Over this cleared space and over some leagues of the virgin forest, the Abbot of Saint Thorn has sac and soc, tholl and theam, catch-a-thief-in, catch-a-thief-out, as well as other sovereign prerogatives, all of which he owes to the regret and remorse of the Countess Isabel over the death of her first husband and only lover, Fulk de Bréauté.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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"My desire is," he says in the preface, "that this book may prompt better wits to believe that a divine theam is as capable and happy a subject of poetical ornament, as any pagan or humane device whatsoever."
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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Yet af ther hope, gif need rewhayre, [41] it wawd theam all deceive.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand. '
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand. '
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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CR4 is not a Sir, but a dynamic theam of highly skilled engineers from around the globe, that will make you laugh, maybe pick-up on you, but surely will provide a technically correct answer to almost any question.
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