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In the meane season the lord Admirall of England in his ship called the Arke-royall, all that night pursued the Spaniards so neere, that in the morning hee was almost left alone in the enimies
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Faulkner says of Brook Green, "Here is a Roman Catholic Chapel and School called the Arke," so that this part of Hammersmith has long been connected with the Catholics.
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865
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Phoenix, which was in the Arke with the Patriarch Noah.
The Decameron 2004
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Feather of the Phoenix, which was with Noah in the Arke, as before
The Decameron 2004
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In the foresaide countrey there is the very same mountalne whereupon the Arke of Noah rested: vnto the which I would willingly haue ascended, if my company would haue stayed for me.
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The 28. day being Munday, the L. Admirall came aboord the Arke againe, minding there to remaine for a space, as indeed he did, and vpon the aduise of his Physition, to deale something in Physicke, for that his L. found his body something out of frame.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Secondly, of _Ahabs_ disease exceeding in externall humiliation, affected gestures, passionate sighes, lowdnesse of voyce, odde attires & such like: These know how to rend the garment, hang the head with the bulrush, to whip and launce their skinnes with _Baals_ Priests; and yet strangers to a wounded spirit: not but that true and hearty zeale doth lift up the eyes, knocke the breast, dance before the Arke.
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_David_ served God but reasonably, till hee published his repentance; hee that steales his meat, though poverty tempt him, yet giveth thankes but coldly: zeale and sinne, will soone expell the one or the other out of their subject; Can you imagine in the same roofe, God and Beliall, the Arke and Dagon?
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The "Arkite" may have dwelt in Arke to the north, Tell ` Arka, north of Tripolis, which again lay north of Sidon.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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He must have been impressed by Wilkins 'contention that "few were the several species of beasts and fowls which were to be in the Arke"; a consequence of the fundamental error of his system, the belief that nature was easily classified, and her classes few.
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