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Yet to speake uprightly of this young married Wife, she declared her selfe to be of a wise and chearfull spirit, not discoraged with her unequalitie of marriage: but bearing all with a contented browe, for feare of urging the very least mislike in her Husband.
The Decameron 2004
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If any foorme or stoole stand in his way, hee oftentimes beateth his browe vpon the same, and often ducking downe with his head, and body, worshippeth the chiefe Image.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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'Darst thou then (quoth Duke of Medyna, with a browe half angry) fight with one of these Spanish Pullets?
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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No mortall man, with sweat of browe, or toile of minde,
The Scholemaster 1870
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Oh God, that mercie, whose maiestick browe, should be vnwrinckled, and that awefull iustice, which looketh through a vaile of sufferaunce vppon the frailtie of the multitude should with the clamours of outragious wrongs, be stird and wakened thus to punishment.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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If any foorme or stoole stand in his way, hee oftentimes beateth his browe vpon the same, and often ducking downe with his head, and body, worshippeth the chiefe Image.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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No mortall man, with sweat of browe, or toile of minde,
The Scholemaster 1570
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_No mortall man, with sweat of browe, or toile of minde,
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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