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  • Dis cat is no has hypotenuse.. tis not right tryangle.

    stop watchin me, is tryin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The ground of which tryangle was of black stone, the better to shew the perfection and truthe of the mettals in the trophæs, and the beautifull bodyes of the delycate virgins.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • The mouth of the arches were stopped with rombyes of cleare glasse in forme of a tryangle, and the pypes beautified all ouer with an

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • At home, being wet, shifted my band and things, and then to dinner, and after dinner went up and tried a little upon my tryangle, which I understand fully, and with a little use I believe could bring myself to do something.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • So home, and after being a little while hearing Ashwell play on the tryangle, to my office, and there late, writing a chiding letter -- to my poor father about his being so unwilling to come to an account with me, which I desire he might do, that I may know what he spends, and how to order the estate so as to pay debts and legacys as far as may be.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • So home to dinner with my father and wife, and after dinner up to my tryangle, where I found that above my expectation

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • I left him in bed, being very weary, to come to my house to-night or tomorrow, when he pleases, and so I home, calling on the virginall maker, buying a rest for myself to tune my tryangle, and taking one of his people along with me to put it in tune once more, by which I learned how to go about it myself for the time to come.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • So home to supper and to bed, Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yesterday, did please me very well, Ashwell playing upon it pretty well.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Home to dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home again, and up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good ear and hand.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

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