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I, like you years before, am about to embarke on journey to France.
reunion 2005
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Which words were so weighty in the apprehension of King Philip, that sodainly (having as yet never seen her) he began to affect her very earnestly, concluding to embarke himselfe at Gennes or Genoua, there to set forward on the intended voyage, and journying thither by land, hee would shape some honest excuse to see the Lady Marquesse, whose
The Decameron 2004
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And there wee found a mightie riuer: insomuch that we were constrained to embarke our selues, and to saile ouer it.
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And there wee found a mightie riuer: insomuch that we were constrained to embarke our selues, and to saile ouer it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 2. of August at night wee did embarke our selues vpon the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Artillerie, vvithout the danger vvhereof, vvas no conuenient landing place vvithin ten English miles of the Citie, to vvhich the saide Pilote tooke vpon him to conduct vs. All thinges being thus considered on, the vvhole forces vvere commaunded in the euening to embarke themselues into Pinnaces, boates, & other small barkes appointed for this seruice.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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I hope to embarke myselfe by the helpe of God this fourth yeare, & I beseech him to grant me better successe then I have had hitherto, & beseech him to give me Grace & to make me partaker of that everlasting happinesse which is the onely thing a man ought to look after.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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They all retyred to their village and we [sought] the meanes to embarke ourselves.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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He gives me good advice not to embarke into trade (as I have had it in my thoughts about Colonell Norwood) so as to be seen to mind it, for it will do me hurte, and draw my mind off from my business and embroile my estate too soon.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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He told me how my Lord has drawn a bill of exchange from Spayne of L1200, and would have me supply him with L500 of it, but I avoyded it, being not willing to embarke myself in money there, where I see things going to ruine.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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