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Examples
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Their ffurnace that keepes their dye panns boyling is all under that roome made of Coale ffires.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Take "freysshe grece boyling" - I use canola oil which is inauthentic but doesn't smoke.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006
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And I had received charge by expresse command, that I should seeke for (so much as consisted in my power to do) the especiall vertues and priviledges belonging to Porcellane, which although the boyling thereof bee worth but little, yet it is very profitable to any but us.
The Decameron 2004
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Mocharones and Ravivolies, boyling them with broth of Capons, and afterward hurled them all about, to whosoever can or will catch them.
The Decameron 2004
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His blood boyling with rage and distemper, by such a monstrous injurie offered him; he wrapt his night-mantle about out and leaving his Chamber, imagining, that whatsoever he was, needs he must be one of his owne house: he tooke a light in his hand, and convayed it into a little Lanthorne, purposing to be resolved in his suspition.
The Decameron 2004
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Out of their cowes milke they first churne butter, boyling the which butter vnto a perfect decoction, they put it into rams skinnes, which they reserue for the same purpose.
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By the riuer Euphrates two dayes iourney from Babylon at a place called Ait, in a fielde neere vnto it, is a strange thing to see: a mouth that doth continually throwe fourth against the ayre boyling pitch with a filthy smoke: which pitch doth runne abroad into a great fielde which is alwayes full thereof.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item, a thiefe or felon that hath stollen being lawfully conuicted, shall haue his head shorne, and boyling pitch powred vpon his head, and feathers or downe strawed vpon the same, whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing place they shall come to, there to be cast vp.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Out of their cowes milke they first churne butter, boyling the which butter vnto a perfect decoction, they put it into rams skinnes, which they reserue for the same purpose.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It begins: ‘Sciatica he cured it, by boyling his buttocks.’
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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