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  • Leland, in his famous _Itinerary_ written in the sixteenth century, after describing the Bay of Torre as being about four miles across the entrance and "ten miles or more in compace," says: "The Fishermen hath divers tymes taken up with theyr nettes yn Torre-bay mussons of harts, whereby men judge that in tymes paste it hath been forest grounds."

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • I would also suggest finding a used compace car in the states. lots available and you should find a good one with low miles for your $8,000.

    Car Talk 1919

  • He feccheth his compace whan he shall bowe or knele,

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Cons: While I can actually pack the body and the lens in a fairly compact manner using dedicated neoprene pouches, the setup becomes decidedly not compace once I assemble them together.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • Some weak willed people who have no moral compace think that to be evil you have to be literally foaming at the mouth all the time and live in a big castle.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • "floures and knottes in whose vault were gilded," he says, by the rich cardinal of Winchester; the latter, (the cloysters,) were both "large and faire;" the houses in the compace of the area of the college for the

    A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

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