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The reason is, as the Mariners said to me, because that there meete all the waues from all places of the Straights of Gibralter, and there breake, and that in most calmes there go greatest seas, whether the winde blow or not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These sandes lie vnder 18. degrees, and you must passe betweene the coast of Guine and the sandes aforesaid, not going too neer eyther of them, otherwise close by the Coast there are great calmes, thunders, raines and lightnings, with great stormes, harde by the sands men are in daunger to be cast away: and so sayling on their course, first East South East, then East and East and by
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 10. of Iune in the euening we were vnder 5. degrees and a halfe on the North side of the line, and then we began again to see the North star, which for the space of 2. years we had not seene, holding our course North Northwest, there we began to haue smal blasts, and some times calmes, but the aire all South and South east.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Strikes to farre Northwarde, and we coulde not perceiue the sands that are set downe in the Portingalles sea Cards, but we saw many turnings of streames, and we were much troubled, with calmes, but with the new Moone we had winde enough out of the West and North
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sometimes we had calmes, wherein our Mariners fished, and tooke good store of diuers sorts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In which voyage we endured great extremity for lacke of fresh water: for the weather was extreme hote, and we were many marchants and passengers, and we had very many calmes, and hote weather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I read also that some of the better sort, in and before the times of the Saxons (who notwithstanding used some glass also since the time of Benedict Biscop, the monk that brought the feat of glazing first into this land), did make panels of horn instead of glass, and fix them in wooden calmes.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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I read also that some of the better sort, in and before the times of the Saxons (who notwithstanding used some glass also since the time of Benedict Biscop, the monk that brought the feat of glazing into this land), did make panels of horn instead of glass, and fix them in wooden calmes.
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Tamise et du Tage Font louer leur gouvernement: Mais en de si calmes provinces, Où le peuple adore les princes, Et met au gré le plus haut
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. David Hume 1743
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November the 24th, both the night past and this morning was foggy weather, with some calmes between times.
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