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In the catalan high pirenees, higher than 2000 m high, deep inside Catalonia, where there are plenty of 10-20 hab. villages, there's a traditional festival called "falles" to.
Dark Roasted Blend Avi Abrams 2010
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Drunkennes is honourable among them, and when any of them hath taken more drinke then his stomacke can well beare, hee casteth it vp and falles to drinking againe.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And where the best estates haue none assurance good Of lands, of liues, nor nothing falles vnto the next of blood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Drunkennes is honourable among them, and when any of them hath taken more drinke then his stomacke can well beare, hee casteth it vp and falles to drinking againe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Where the sharpe accent falles more tunably vpon [graunt] [peace] [long] [dure] then it would by conuersion, as to accent then thus:
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Againe in these _bisillables, endúre, unsúre, demúre, aspíre, desíre, retíre_, your sharpe accent falles vpon the last sillable: but in words _monosillable_ which be for the more part our naturall Saxon English, the accent is indifferent, and may be vsed for sharp or flat and heauy at our pleasure.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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There was in diuers places inestimable huge downe falles of many columnes or rather confused piles of broken stones, and vnshapely
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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For they set forth the dolefull falles of infortunate & afflicted Princes,
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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For now the sharpe accent falles vpon _bo_, and so doth it vpon the last in _restóre_, which was not in th'other verse.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And some verses where the sharpe accent falles vpon the first and third, and so make the verse wholly _Trochaicke_, as thus,
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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