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  • April 4, 2010 at 3:28 am gud goin, pb! want a hard boyled egg?

    How am I - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Hubbeh thot dey waz haard boyled adn pre-cullered husbenz!

    Are you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Filled with spins and twists, the latest Bachelor Chronicles is a terrific amusing historical filled with a warm romance and pot “boyled” intrigue.

    Confessions of a Little Black Gown-Elizabeth Boyle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • Hopefullee he hadda boyled peenut or too, an sum gritz, an biskits an gwavee.

    HAY SUP - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Maide (by her Mistresses direction) had conveighed the two Capons, with boyled Eggs, Bread and a Bottle of Wine (all folded up in a faire cleane table cloth) into her Garden, that a passage to it, without entering into the house, and where shee had divers times supt with Frederigo.

    The Decameron 2004

  • All which (for the most part) are rather to be roasted then boyled.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • _Rose water_, wherein _Spinage_ first a little boyled, hath been strained, to make it green; be sure your paste be well made, and whole, and so bake it up, and serve it.

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • _Pare-plums_, and wipe them upon a faire cloath, and put them into your Syrupe when it is almost cold, and so set them upon the fire againe, and let them boyle as softly as you can, for when they are boyled enough, the kernels will be yellow, then take them up, but let your Syrupe boyle till it be thick; then put your

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • At the same time while they wondred at this dreadfull sight one of the Servants came running out of the Seller, and told that all the wine was boyled out of the vessels, as though there had beene some great fire under.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Let their bread be made of wheat, very well wrought, fermented or leavened; and let their drinke be beere well boyled and brewed: and let it bee stale, or old enough, but in no wise tart, sharp, or sower: And above all let them forbeare to mixe the water of the fountaine with their drinke at meales: for that may cause many inconveniences to follow, and ensue.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

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