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Besides, this volary was so exceedingly neat, that, considering its extent, one would think there could not be less than an hundred persons to keep it so clean as it was; but all this while not one soul appeared, either here or in the gardens where I had been, and yet I could not perceive a weed or any superfluous thing there.

—The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01

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Besides, this volary was so exceedingly neat, that, considering its extent, one would think there could not be less than an hundred persons to keep it so clean as it was; but all this while not one soul appeared, either here or in the gardens where I had been, and yet I could not perceive a weed or any superfluous thing there. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
Ben Jonson uses the word volary and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing. — Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat thing. — Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Like him, to make the ayre, one volary: — The Battaile of Agincourt
I opened the third door, where I found a large volary, paved with marble of several fine colours that were not common. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01