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He is the classic case of someone, how did prezza put it, "i'm demob me I am..." shouldnt he be on clarkes new website engaging in a policy debate?
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Hall, Oxon, dinner and supper throughout the year for the after grace, by the chaplains, clarkes, and choristers there.
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_Gower_ nor _Lydgate_ nor yet _Chaucer_, for their language is now out of vfe with vs: neither shall he take the termes of Northern-men, such as they vse in dayly talke, whether they be noble men or gentlemen, or of their best clarkes all is a matter: nor in effect any speach vsed beyond the riuer of Trent, though no man can deny but that theirs is the purer
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Shoreditch Church with thirty priests and clarkes singing, "and" Sir
The Parish Clerk 1892
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“Graue clothes make dunces often seeme great clarkes.”
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Hart, while his clarkes and others were feasting of it in the best room of the house, and after dinner playing at shuffleboard,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Hart, while his clarkes and others were feasting of it in the best room of the house, and after dinner playing at shuffleboard,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Sir W. Batten there upon his survey, but he is not come, and so we got a dish of steaks at the W.ite Hart, while his clarkes and others were feasting of it in the best room of the house, and after dinner playing at shuffleboard,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 17: July/August 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Need more like it that sell better to people that clarkes comment tried to deflect.
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Why do so many brides have canon in d or ave maria or clarkes trumpet voluntary played at their wedding?
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