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Kung Fu Jew · January 25th, 2007 at 10:36 am shreklekh! a kharpe un a bushe!
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December 8th, 2005 at 3: 52 pm wisedup says: bushe will never have to explain to 2010+ dead military how it was ‘worth it’ … now will he.
Think Progress » Bush’s Iraq PR Campaign Falling Flat 2005
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Uenus as a louer, ranne to helpe Adonis her louer, and by chaunce she fell into a Rose bushe, and pricked with it her foote, the blood then ran out of her tender foote, did colour the
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John Trull & Jesse Anderson think that you have about 100 bushe [l] s at each of their houses, but I don't think there is so much at Anderson's.
Lenoir Family. Lenoir Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Lenoir Family 1865
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Four considerable villages were assigned for the subsistence of his Indian dogs; eight hundred stallions, and sixteen thousand mares, were constantly kept, at the expense of the country, for the royal stables; and as the daily tribute, which was paid to the satrap, amounted to one English bushe of silver, we may compute the annual revenue of Assyria at more than twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The railway to Pevensey seemed to have dodged modernity - stations decked with butterfly bushe, birdsong and the clank of the old signal.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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_Moyses_, he was fled out of _Ægypt_, being fourtie yeares of age, for the slaughter of an _Ægyptian_, and in his good-father _Iethroes_ lande, first called at the firie bushe, hauing remained there other fourtie yeares in exile: so that suppose he had beene the wickeddest man in the worlde before, he then became a changed and regenerat man, and very litle of olde
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Four considerable villages were assigned for the subsistence of his Indian dogs; eight hundred stallions, and sixteen thousand mares, were constantly kept, at the expense of the country, for the royal stables; and as the daily tribute, which was paid to the satrap, amounted to one English bushe of silver, we may compute the annual revenue of Assyria at more than twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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And althoughe by other meanes wee mighte attaine to the knowledge thereof, yet beinge not there fortified and strongly seated, the French that swarme with multitude of people, or other nations, mighte secretly fortifie themselves before us, hearinge of the benefite that is to be reaped of that voyadge; and so wee shoulde beate the bushe and other men take the birdes; wee shoulde be at the chardge and travell, and other men reape the gaine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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4.94.29: To view the limed bushe, to loke afore we light,
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