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  • The discoverie of a gaping gulf where into England is likely to be swallowed by another French marriage

    Gutenberg - Recent changes [en] Mroe 2010

  • The discoverie of a gaping gulf where into England is likely to be swallowed by another French marriage

    Gutenberg - Recent changes [en] Mroe 2010

  • There he kept him secretly in a quiet chamber, and brought unto him such as had been trusty servants to his father, not all at, once, but apart by one and one, for fear of discoverie.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • When the assembly being met together, and under the regiment of dioneus: The discourses are directed, for the discoverie of such policies and deceites, as women have used for beguiling of their husbandes, either in respect of their love, or for the prevention of some blame or scandall, escaping without sight, knowledge, or otherwise

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now trust me thou hast said very well: And me wi drawing hence the argument of his setled perswasion; that he had the chastest Woman living to his wife, and so just a Servant, as could not be fellowed: there never was any further discoverie of this Garden-night accident.

    The Decameron 2004

  • When the assembly being met together, and under the regiment of dioneus: The discourses are directed, for the discoverie of such policies and deceites, as women have used for beguiling of their husbandes, either in respect of their love, or for the prevention of some blame or scandall, escaping without sight, knowledge, or otherwise

    The Decameron 2004

  • On the other hand, while the only _prose_ character in Bliss of the sixteenth century deals with the criminal classes, "a discoverie of ten English leapers verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and Commonwealth," quoted in his

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • His Lordship intendinge to send up certain forces to march towardes the mountaines for the discoverie of gold or silver mines at the end of

    Colonial Records of Virginia Various

  • 'A letter sent by Sir John Suckling from France, deploring his sad estate and flight, with a discoverie of the plot and conspiracie intended by him and his adherents against England. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • In 1583 a committee from the Muscovy merchants drew up a set of resolutions concerning a conference with M. Carlile upon his "intended discoverie and attempt into the hithermost parts of America,"

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

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