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- verb Archaic spelling of
bears , third-person singular simple present indicative form ofbear .
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Examples
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[Quinsborough was Königsberg in East Prussia, and is now Kaliningrad in a Russian enclave.] "Young beares are there; their flesh sold in market as ordinarily as beef here, and is excellent sweet meat."
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M. miles: wherein are an infinit number of serpents, and great store of lions, beares, and al kinds of rauening and wild beasts, and especially of elephants.
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A carpett of crimson velvet, richlie embr. with my Lo. posie, beares and ragged staves, etc., of clothe of goulde and silver, garnished upon the seames and aboute with golde lace, fringed accordinglie, lyned with crimson taffata sarsenett, being 3 breadths of velvet, one yard 3 quarters long.
Kenilworth 2004
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A Chess Boarde of ebanie, with checkars of christall and other stones, layed with silver, garnished with beares and ragged staves, and cinquefoiles of silver.
Kenilworth 2004
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Besides, the wounds and brusings which she beares, Are such, so manie, so incurable, As to remoue her from this place of feares.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Cassacke beares his felt, to force away the raine: Their bridles are not very braue, their saddles are but plaine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Island for it is wel knowen that vultures come very seldome together with the Ise of the sea, vnto vs, as beares also (but they seldomer then vultures) and a certaine kind of crowes called by the
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Many times (when the Winter is very hard and extreeme) the beares and woolfes issue by troopes out of the woods driuen by hunger, and enter the villages, tearing and rauening all they can finde: so that the inhabitants are faine to flie for safegard of their liues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[Vultures, beares and crows come vpon the drift Ice into Island.]
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Honie-tongd _Tullie_, Mermaid of our eares, Affirmes no force, can force true _Fortitude_, It with our bodies, no communion beares, The soule and spyrit, sole doth it include; It is that part of honestie which reares The hart to heauen, and euer doth obtrude
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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