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Leman Street, we cut off to the left into Spitalfields, and dived into Frying-pan Alley.
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Martellino, and that he had already given him the Strappado; were in heavy perplexity, saying to themselves; we have carried this businesse very badly, redeeming him out of the Frying-pan, and flinging him into the fire.
The Decameron 2004
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Pallet endeavouring to unravel the Mystery of the Treatment he had received, falls out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.
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Pallet endeavouring to unravel the Mystery of the Treatment he had received, falls out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.
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Pallet endeavouring to unravel the Mystery of the Treatment he had received, falls out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.
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The other following her, had on her left shoulder a Frying-pan, and under the same arme
The Decameron 2004
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‘Frying-pan,’ to which he had recently been elected.
In Chancery 2004
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One remarkable excavation of this kind is the Devil's Frying-pan, covering about two acres, which the sea enters through an archway of rock at high tides; the pit is nearly 200 feet deep.
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You must take out the Intrailes as you doe of other fish, and cut them a-crosse the sides, as you do to broyle, washed clean, dried with a cloth, lay them upon a Tray or board, sprinkle a little salt on them, and flowre them as to frie them, so take your Frying-pan with so much
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Make a dozen or a score of them in a little Frying-pan, no bigger than a
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