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The language of the Low-Countries of Scotland is the same with that which is spoken all over England; only an Englishman will understand a
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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Sergeants, that he was forc'd to fly into the _Low-Countries_ to secure himself; Chusing rather to trust to his Heels than his Hands.
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His Unkle _Robert Dudley_ Earl of _Leicester_ (a man almost as much hated as his Nephew was loved) was sent over into the _Low-Countries_, with a well appointed Army, and large Commission, to defend the _United
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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'Low-Countries' work; but one often forgets that we are in French
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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Scotland and the Low-Countries, [where] they are reformed, they cannot abide me.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Low-Countries, was rewarded with the garter and the place of a privy-councillor.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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They removed to the continent; travelled through France, Italy, and the Low-Countries, without finding any eligible place wherein to fix.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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Arrival of 14,000 Hanoverians in the Low-Countries.
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He did not, however, trust his stay in the Low-Countries to the success of his negotiation, for he wrote to his father, December 10, 1631, “You may say you understand that I have taken my resolution to quit this cruel Country.”
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Burigny, Jean L De 1754
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The History of the Low-Countries, tho 'written with great simplicity, will find malevolent readers.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Burigny, Jean L De 1754
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