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  • There is a famous passage in Thomas Morley's "Plaine and Easie Introduction of Musick" which describes such an occasion:

    Christmas Meeting 1951

  • Business will be Easie enough, and pleasant enough: For we intend to take a very good Lodging for you, and provide you with all things necessary; and your Business shall only be to lie with one of us one Night, and the other another.

    The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

  • And yet this is a further wonder: he did scarcely allow himself, from his First Degree in the University, any Recreation or Easie Exercise, no not so much as walking, but very Rare and Seldome; and that not upon his own choice, but as being compelled by friendly, yet, Forcible

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • There was a vara guid instance occurred sune after I married Easie.

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • In a fit of temporary mental derangement the misguided man had one Sabbath day, despite the entreaties of his affrighted spouse, called at the post-office, and was on the point of reading the letter there received when Easie, who had slipped on her bonnet and followed him, snatched the secular thing from his hands.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • In a fit of temporary mental derangement the misguided man had one Sabbath day, despite the entreaties of his affrighted spouse, called at the post-office, and was on the point of reading the letter there received, when Easie, who had slipped on her bonnet and followed him, snatched the secular thing from his hands.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • That very night twelve months ago the packman was murdered at Broken Buss, and Easie

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • As for Waster Lunny's daughter Easie, who got her schooling free for redding up the school-house and breaking my furniture, she would never have been off the gossip about the minister, for she was her mother in miniature, with a tongue that ran like a pump after the pans are full, not for use but for the mere pleasure of spilling.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • The dignity of Kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and Easie way to establish a free Commonwealth.

    Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

  • S.G. -- The dignity of Kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and Easie way to establish a free Commonwealth.

    Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

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