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Johnes lordschipe, in goynge streyght toward the est, men fynde nothing but mountaynes and roches fulle grete: and there is the derke regyoun, where no man may see, nouther be day ne be nyght, as thei of the contree seyn.
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Johnes lordschipe, in goynge streyght toward the est, men fynde nothing but mountaynes and roches fulle grete: and there is the derke regyoun, where no man may see, nouther be day ne be nyght, as thei of the contree seyn.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ Foule/derke & dy {m} me his eyen grete & stoute.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Cheif: meredith is pregnant with 7 babies? derke: correct
TV Fanatic 2010
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DOcilite whereby we make the mater playne & easy to be per - ceyued/is nat greatly required in this kynde of oracion/for it is belonging properly to derke
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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_ The lyght (as I told you before) was but litle, and she stode at the ryght ende of the aultre in the derke corner, at the last the communicatyõ of the fyrst
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Unfortunately, he seems to have chosen the route of the smiler with the knife, to become the acceptable mouthpiece for "the derke imagining of felonye, and al the compassing".
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Unfortunately, he seems to have chosen the route of the smiler with the knife, to become the acceptable mouthpiece for "the derke imagining of felonye, and al the compassing".
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