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  • Cloyse petterson, Mate or Pilot of the Ship or prize called the

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • Cloyse, understanding the allusion to be to Nourse, who was her sister, went out of church, and was accordingly cried out upon, examined, and committed.

    Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885

  • Shepherd, and that she and her sister Cloyse, and Edward Bishop's wife, had killed John Putnam's child.

    The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad 1875

  • England world, whose very baldness jeers it to scorn -- there is the same fateful atmosphere in which Goody Cloyse might at any moment whisk by upon her broomstick, and in which the startled heart stands still with unspeakable terror.

    Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

  • He had cast up his eyes in astonishment, and, looking down again, beheld neither Goody Cloyse nor the serpentine staff, but his fellow-traveller alone, who waited for him as calmly as if nothing had happened.

    Young Goodman Brown 1846

  • Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a little girl who had brought her a pint of morning's milk.

    Young Goodman Brown 1846

  • ` ` Then Goody Cloyse knows her old friend? '' observed the traveller, confronting her and leaning on his writhing stick.

    Young Goodman Brown 1846

  • He had cast up his eyes in astonishment, and, looking down again, beheld neither Goody Cloyse nor the serpentine staff, but his fellow-traveller alone, who waited for him as calmly as if nothing had happened.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • "Then Goody Cloyse knows her old friend?" observed the traveller, confronting her and leaning on his writhing stick.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a little girl who had brought her a pint of morning's milk.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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