varietie

• “The vegetable gardens are planted with heirloom varietie ...”

  Dr. Brent Ridge: The Obamas Get Their Hands Dirty

• “When being come into the goodly Garden, they spent the time in varietie of sports, dining where they had supt the night before.”

  The Decameron

• “But afterwarde the earth beyng more parched by the heate of the Sonne, and the drouthe of the windes, ceased to bring furthe any mo greate beastes: and those that ware already brought furthe, (saie thei) mainteined, and encreased by mutualle engendrure, the varietie, and nombre.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “For (thought I) seing the booke hath in it, much pleasant varietie of thinges, and yet more profite in the pitthe: if it faile to bee otherwise rewarded, yet shal it thankefully of the good be regarded.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “The sayd felte on the necke of their house, they doe garnish ouer with beautifull varietie of pictures.”

  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.

• “When they exceede, and haue varietie of dishes, the first are their baked meates (for roste meates they vse little) and then their broathes or pottage.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “By reason of the varietie of the windes and dangerous flats of the Caspian sea, they beat it vp and downe some 20. dayes.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And here I cease for this time, intreating you to heare with this my large discourse, which by reason of the varietie of matter, I could make no shorter, and I beseech God to prosper all your attempts.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “For the bringing of which into this homely and rough-hewen shape, which here thou seest; what restlesse nights, what painefull dayes, what heat, what cold I haue indured; how many long & chargeable iourneys I haue trauailed; how many famous libraries I haue searched into; what varietie of ancient and moderne writers I haue perused; what a number of old records, patents, priuleges, letters, &c.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And yet in the Sommer time you shal see such a new hiew and face of a Countrey, the woods (for the most part which are all of firre and birch) so fresh and so sweete, the pastures and medowes so greene and well growen, (and that vpon the sudden) such varietie of flowers, such noyse of birdes”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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