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NE way, Swyne floo s bin going around at teh Uni hear.
Stop faking that heart attack… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And so, beyng Mules and Horses before they went, returned verie Swyne and Asses home agayne; yet euerie where verie Foxes with as suttle and busie heades; and where they may, verie Woolues, with cruell malicious hartes.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Professor Swyne now joined his wife at the window, looking rather scared in spite of the boy's assuring speech.
The Tin Woodman of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1918
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Professor Swyne now joined his wife at the window, looking rather scared in spite of the boy's assuring speech.
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Mules and Horses before they went, returned verie Swyne and
The Scholemaster 1870
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The events which led to the battle of the Swyne, or as it is more generally termed of the Scluse, are too familiar to require repetition.
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Swyne. or of Shepe. parboile hem and skerne hem to dyce [2] cast hem in gode broth and do þer to erbes. grynde chyballes [3]. smale y hewe. seeþ it tendre and lye it with zolkes of eyrenn. do þer to verious [4] safroun powdour douce and salt, and serue it forth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Take the brawnn of Swyne. parboile it and grynde it smale and alay it up with zolkes of ayren. set it ouere [2] the fyre with white Grece and lat it not seeþ to fast. do þerinne Safroun an powdour fort and messe it forth. and cast þerinne powdour douce, and serue it forth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Brawn is now appropriated to these rolls which are made of Brawn or Boar, but it was not so anciently, since in No. 32 we have _Brawn of Swyne_, which shews the word was common to other kinds of flesh as well as that of the Boar; and therefore I cannot agree with Dr. Wallis in deducing _Brawn _ from _Aprugna_.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Cranes [1] and Herouns shul be armed [2] with lardes of Swyne. and eten with gyngur.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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