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National Animal Identification System: They can make you comly!
From On High 2006
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National Animal Identification System: They can make you comly!
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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_Philetus_, a Youth of a very comly Person, but a little Effeminate, who passionately admir'd the beautiful _Theodora_, and who had made several
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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'Tis true, the Stuf and the Lining is costly and very dear; but then again it is very comly and handsom.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Blacks I had seen, and her children as comly as any of the rest; we had no clothes for them, and therefore when they had suckt, we laid them in
The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville
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Swords, or stronger steels to penetrate through the hearts of men, then the handsom bodiedness, comly and kind behaviour of women.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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There was sometimes a certaine King, inhabiting in the West parts, who had to wife a noble Dame, by whom he had three daughters exceeding fair: of whom the two elder were of such comly shape and beauty, as they did excell and pass all other women living, whereby they were thought worthily to deserve the praise and commendation of every person, and deservedly to be preferred above the residue of the common sort.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Thou art a comly gentleman, and in good fauour with the Duchesse, as I haue oftentimes percieued by her communication, albeit that holdinge fast the bridle of her honor, shee hath been afraid hetherto to open herselfe vnto thee.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Then I according to his commandement, sate down, and he fell in further communication with me and sayd, Verily I doe conjecture by the comly feature of your body, and by the maidenly shamefastnesse of your face that you are a Gentleman borne, as my friend Demeas hath no lesse declared the same in his letters.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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In A Vindication, she says that she and God "were married" at the time of her "healing" in 1670: "Then was the full communion between Christ and my Soul, the Love knot, the comly bands of Marriage; then did he espouse me unto himself for ever" (12, B2 verso).
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