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Gif heo hondleþ þe [ne d] eade · seoþþen his deaȝes beoþ igon · 40 sone cumeþ þ̵ wrecche wif · þe [forh] oweþ þene earfeþ siþ · forbindeþ þæs dædan muþ · ⁊ his dimme eȝen ·
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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And whyte thinges wexen dimme and donne; the stars begin to light the heavens; Cressida returns pensive; the murmurs of the city die out.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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This is that cleare and perfect light, which sweetly and with our vnconstrained willes draweth our dimme sighted eies to contemplate and behold the same.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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[Sidenote: Hope.] _Mine eyes are dimme with wayting: how doe I long for thy salvation?
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"Misser Donas dimme pop," -- Janet's mind took a jump to this.
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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But stricken with feare in this dark vnlightsome place, notwithstanding the dimme burning lampe, I was more desirous to beholde and peruse that triumphant porch and gate as more lawfull to remaine there than other-where.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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"May I be," he says, "in the bed-route of those Seekers that, distrusting the known and experienced deceits of their own Reason, walk unfettered in the quest of truth, ... not hunting those poor soules with Dogge and speare whose dimme sight hath led them into desert and unbeated {210} paths."
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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In addition there was a daughter, Khi-dimme-azaga,
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Tarku-dimme, who figures on a famous silver boss of an ancient Hittite dagger.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Moreouer, least you by old age or some other meanes doe waxe dimme of sight, I will declare vnto you,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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