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There is in these countries a species of dark violet wine, which is got from the juice of the palm, and the aromatic flavor of this _ "assais" _ is greatly appreciated by the Brazilans, and of it there were on board a respectable number of frasques (each holding
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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On looking toward the lake a beautiful panorama unfolded itself, bordered by a frame of cocoanut-trees and assais, which ended at the edge of the liquid level, and showed beyond the picturesque village of Noqueira, with its few small houses lost in the mass of the old olive-trees on the beach.
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There is in these countries a species of dark violet wine, which is got from the juice of the palm, and the aromatic flavor of this “assais” is greatly appreciated by the Brazilans, and of it there were on board a respectable number of frasques (each holding a little more than half a gallon), which would probably be emptied before they arrived at Para.
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On looking toward the lake a beautiful panorama unfolded itself, bordered by a frame of cocoanut-trees and assais, which ended at the edge of the liquid level, and showed beyond the picturesque village of Noqueira, with its few small houses lost in the mass of the old olive-trees on the beach.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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Good men of the other syde at all assais be profytable to all men, and hurtfull to noo man.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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