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Nut-brown skin, short baju coat, multicolored sarong and the decorating head cloth in the gathering darkness.
King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962
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Nut-brown ale, that was famed for its strength in the village of Grand-Pré;
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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This same echo lends its charm to the music of the "Nut-brown Maid," [859] that exquisite love-duo, a combination of popular and artistic poetry written by a nameless author, towards the end of the period, and the finest of the
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The celebrated poem of the Nut-brown Maid first appeared in this Chronicle.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Nut-brown ale, that was famed for its strength in the village of Grand
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Though there was a song about the Nut-brown Maid too; I think she was crazy, crazy Kate, but I cant justly remember.
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Nut-brown ale, that was famed for its strength in the village of Grand-Pré;
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_Dear little Nut-brown Maid all mine, of course you would come, but you mustn't.
Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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His first inclination to attempt a composition of that tender kind arose, as Mr. Savage told me, from his perusal of Prior's "Nut-brown Maid."
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891
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The critics, nearly all with one accord, repeat the remark that it is a "barren" period, with nothing admirable about it, at any rate in England; that it shows us the works of Hoccleve and Lydgate near the beginning, _The Flower and the Leaf_ near the middle (about 1460), and the ballad of _The Nut-brown Maid_ at the end of it, and nothing else that is remarkable.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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