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  • Poets and Philosophers, where wholsome Air and Innocence procured us

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Poets and Philosophers, where wholsome Air and Innocence procured us

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Our own Product, in a cleanly wholsome manner, contented our Appetites; such as serv'd the Conveniency of Life, not superfluous Luxury.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Radish or two that I have in my Fish-bag; we shall, I warrant you, make a good, honest, wholsome, hungry Breakfast, and I will give you direction for the making and using of your fly: and in the mean time, there is your Rod and line; and my advice is, that you fish as you see mee do, and lets try which can catch the first fish.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Just plain and wholsome chrischin approved blood n gore.

    Thanks for the mammory 2004

  • That fare is far more wholsome and publicly acceptable.

    Thanks for the mammory 2004

  • In reward whereof, they taught him (by heart) many wholsome prayers, as the Pater noster in the vulgar tongue; the Song of Saint Alexis; the Lamentations of Saint Bernard, the Hymne of Madame Matilda, and many other such like matters, which he kept charily, and repeated usually, as tending to the salvation of his soule.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Spirits; taught me a wholsome and holy prayer, and protested withall, that shee had often made experiment thereof, before she became a Recluse, and found it (alwayes) a present helpe to her.

    The Decameron 2004

  • May 2005 about the spirited and wholsome resistance which the two R.C. parishes of St. Albert the Great, and St. Anselm's, in the Boston area of New England, are putting up in order to fight against their forced closures.

    Philocrites: The priesthood of all believers. 2004

  • The common people, and even the bourgeois of Paris live, at this season, chiefly on bread and grapes, which is undoubtedly very wholsome fare.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

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