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Casket with the feather, I mistooke my self, and brought the other with the coales.
The Decameron 2004
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Whereupon, he taking the coales in his hand, began to marke their garments of white, and the veyles on the
The Decameron 2004
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Marchants in our Townes of Mosco, Nouogorod the great, and Plesko, that the Coiners of the said Townes shall melt Dollers, and coine money for them, without custome, allowing for coales, and other necessaries, with the workemanship.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They vse also in Goa amongst the common sort to bargaine for coales, wood, lime, and such like, at so many braganines, accounting 24 basaruches for one braganine, albeit there is no such mony stamped.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cotten in double paper, and dry it over a chaffin dish of coales:
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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_Oringes_ without the kernels, and boyle them with the broth of the pot, upon a chafin-dish of coales, with a little _Sugar_, and then have some Sipits ready in a platter, and serve the meat upon them, and put not your Almonds in till it be ready to be served.
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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And so after he had made his humble supplication to God on his knees, he arose, and standyng vpon the coales sayd on this wise.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Item I give to my said nowe loveing wife as a legacy my coatch horses & furniture & what hay or oates, coales, turfes & fuell shall be in my howse att my death.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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Set a Chafin-dish of coales under a close stoole chaire, or in a close stoole case, and strew _Amber_ beaten in fine powder, upon the coales, and sit downe over it, that the smoak may ascend up into the place grieved.
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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Butter; and when you put your Pye into the Oven, stick the _Hartichoakes_ with slices of _Dates_, and put a quarter of a pint of White-wine into the Pye, and when you take it out of the Oven, doe the like againe, with some butter, and sugar, and Rose-water, melting the butter upon some coales, before you put it into the Pye.
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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