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Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immund�, vt corui, vultures, et aquil�, qu� pro consuetudine optim� morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Postrem� afferuntur aquil�, struthiones, gryphandi, accipitres, et papingi, cum diuersis auibus et auiculis, nec non serpentes ac pisces, quorum portitores inclinant profund�, quoniam dicunt omnes terrenas creaturas debere adorationem
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Sure, do you think he could kill him," says the lord, "whin all the stoutest lords in the land wasn't aquil to it, but never kem back, and was ate up alive by the cruel desaiver."
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'Twas a dhirty thrick to play on a comrade, for why should you, Learoyd, be balancin 'yourself on the butt av a satin chair, as if Terence Mulvaney was not the aquil av anybody who thrades in jute!'
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It seems to be compounded of aquil parts of mud, crude ile, and rain water.
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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His mother's a widdy woman with nine moidtherin 'childer, not countin' the pig an 'the goat, which has aquil advantages.
Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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You'd suppose, to listen to him, that the omadhawn's aquil never stepped.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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That was to say, in coorse, supposin 'he got the chance of convarsin' a bit wid somebody aquil to answerin 'him back iligant, the way there wasn't e'er
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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And sez he to you, he couldn't be any manner of manes purtind to be the aquil to what
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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-- I tell you, Miss Wilmet, I never thought that long boy the aquil of his brothers till I saw him in time of need.
The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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