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As for Christmas, which had been given over utterly to "carnall and sensual delights," Parliament put it into law in 1644 that December 25 was from then on to be a day of fast-ing and repentance.
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He quotes an unnamed culinary commentator as saying that the turnip 'augmenteth the sede of man, provoketh carnall lust'.
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He quotes an unnamed culinary commentator as saying that the turnip 'augmenteth the sede of man, provoketh carnall lust'.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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In the next territories adioyning doe inhabite two carnall brothers dukes of the Tartars, namely, Burin and Cadan, the sonnes of Thyaday, who was the sonne of Chingis Can.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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They punish murther with death, and carnall copulation also with any other besides his owne.
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Wherein is displayed, the apparant folly of jealousie: And the subtility of some religious carnall minded men, to beguile silly and simple maried men
The Decameron 2004
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Wherein is displayed, the apparant folly of jealousie: And the subtility of some religious carnall minded men, to beguile silly and simple maried men
The Decameron 2004
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Or in that common wealth, the politike lawes whereof do also enioyne a man that is taken in carnall copulation with the mother, daughter, or sister, by the sonne, father, or brother, to redeeme his life with the one halfe of that which he oaght to haue payed, if he had shed the innocent bloud of the sayd party?
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I haue seene many burnt in this maner, because my house was neere to the gate where they goe out to the place of burning: and when there dieth any great man, his wife with all his slaues with whom hee hath had carnall copulation, burne themselues together with him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the next territories adioyning doe inhabite two carnall brothers dukes of the Tartars, namely, Burin and Cadan, the sonnes of Thyaday, who was the sonne of Chingis Can.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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