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  • Wouldn't harm to have proper hunts instead of all these friday night dolie outings which kill them anyway, by far worse means.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The palankeen and dolie of the plains are by far too heavy and cumbrous for the hills.

    Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

  • 'Eac we quasdon be mundbryce and be ham socnum, sethe hit ofer this do tha: t he dolie enlles thces the age, and sy on Cyninges Jome hwsether be life age: and we quoth of mound-breach, and of home-seeking he who it after this do, that he dole all that he owe

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • 'Eac we quasdon be mundbryce and be ham socnum, sethe hit ofer this do tha: t he dolie enlles thces the age, and sy on Cyninges Jome hwsether be life age: and we quoth of mound-breach, and of home-seeking he who it after this do, that he dole all that he owe

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Eac we quaedon be mundbryce and be ham socnum, sethe hit ofer this do thaet he dolie ealles thaes the age, andsy on Cyninges dome hwaether he life age; and we quoth ofmound-breach, and of home-seeking he who it after this do, thathe dole all that he owe [owns], and is in king's doom whether helife owes [owns.]

    Public Papers 1775

  • Eac we quaedon be mundbryce and be ham socnum, sethe hit ofer this do thaet he dolie ealles thaes the age, and sy on Cyninges dome hwaether he life age; and we quoth of mound-breach, and of home-seeking he who it after this do, that he dole all that he owe [owns], and is in king's doom whether he life owes (owns].

    Autobiography 1821

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