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This makes excellent burges as well as anything else that calls for ground meat.
Ground Venision 2009
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There were with the king at this siege, his sonne the duke of Aquitane, otherwise called the Dolphin, the dukes of Burgognie and Bar, and a great number of other earles, lords, knights, and gentlemen; so that the citie was besieged euen till within the Faux burges of that side towards
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Nevertheless, great is the joy at meeting; the "uplandis mous" produces her choicest stores; the "burges mous" looks on, unable to quite conceal her astonishment.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The story of the "uplandis Mous and the burges Mous," so often related, has never been better told than by Henryson, and this can be affirmed without forgetting La Fontaine.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Wheþ {er} þ {a} t h {i} t ben comyns, burges, or mayr {e};
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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There are also two or three mud and stone _burges_, or round towers, to protect the few dates and spots of green.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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** A dyalogue of one Clemente, t clerke of the convocacyon, and one Barnarde, a burges of the parlyamentj dyfputynge betwene them, what aufloryte the clergye have to make iawcs.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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Resolutions on the death of kephesentative w.h. burges of kingston.
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