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  • Mayd teh kitteh kech hims own mauseez, can u imajin?

    One look at - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Wun thingie uv Minnit Mayd frozn lemminayd consentrayt

    Coolness - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "The Not-browne Mayd," as Bishop Percy gives the title in his Reliques, was perhaps already 300 years old when Wordsworth was writing "Nutting," and it had already provided inspiration for other literary works, including Prior's Henry and Emma (Percy, headnote to "The Not-browne Mayd," II. 265-66).

    Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

  • Mayd by my father for my sonne on his XI birthedy and never worne butte ync

    Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

  • And She (poor Mayd) full loud 'gan saye her Prayres.

    The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

  • -- This day comes my new cook-Mayd, Jane Gentleman, and heaven send she prove worthy of her name, for I am drove almost madd with mayds that are not mayds but Sluts and know not diligence nor cleanliness, to their own undoing and mine.

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

  • At which time they began to devise with themselves of our death, and how they might be revenged; divers was the opinions of this divers number: the first said, that hee thought best the Mayd should be burned alive: the second said she should be throwne out to wild beasts: the third said, she should be hanged upon

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • We are filled with admiration for the tenacity of faith of that same Mullá Ḥusayn, demonstrated by his resolve to persevere in sounding the a_dh_án, while besieged in the caravanserai of Sabsih-Maydán, though three of his companions, who had successively ascended to the roof of the inn, with the express purpose of performing that sacred rite, had been instantly killed by the bullets of the enemy.

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • Edward, _ or that sweet old English folk-song, too long for insertion here, _The Not-Browne Mayd, _ but more remotely from the ballad of mingled dialogue and narrative, as _The Gardener or Fine Flowers i 'the Valley.

    Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894

  • (Al-Maydáni, Arab.prov. ii. 132) and the knowledge was hereditary in the tribe Mashíj.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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