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  • "Id is quide drue, I assure you," in such convincing tones as left no room for further doubt.

    The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Ishmael smiled and held out his hand; and Isaacs came and grasped it, expressing his pleasure in having "von drue shentleman" for his fellow-passenger once more.

    Self-Raised Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • "You shall see dot I oonderstand mein pizness; for gif I look like ein German, I am ein drue Vrenchman, and vat is more, I am ver 'conning."

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "You shall see dot I oonderstand mein pizness; for gif I look like ein German, I am ein drue Vrenchman, and vat is more, I am ver 'conning."

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • I be the weiv o 'un, an' that zeben yur agone when 'ee was a travellin' drue Pézenas, he made out, we '' iz falseness, that 'ee knowth zo wul' ow vur act vur to come over my 'art, an' zo by one way or tother vur to git me vur to gèe unmy 'an vur to marry un.

    Monsieur De Pourceaugnac 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647

  • If thei were assaulted on the flancke, thei drue the carriages towardes thesame parte that was safe, and of the other, thei made hedde.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • I am so afraid for the world my grandchildren will face as adults. did you guys ever hear of the drue sjoin (probably misspelled) case he said he didnt do it either when spring came and her body was found, that was another story, the thing with colder climates it preserves stufff!

    Blogger News Network 2009

  • "An Englishman," says Harrison, "endeavouring some time to write of our attire ... when he saw what a difficult piece of work he had taken in hand, he gave over his travail, and onely drue a picture of a naked man unto whom he gave a pair of shears in the one hand and a piece of cloth in the other, to the end that he should shape his apparel after such fashion as himself liked, sith he could find no garment that could please him any while together: and this he called an Englishman."

    Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

  • German, I am ein drue Vrenchman, and vat is more, I am ver’ conning.”

    Eve and David 2007

  • German, I am ein drue Vrenchman, and vat is more, I am ver’ conning.”

    Eve and David 2007

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