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They haue in some of these houses their idoles standing, and one sitteth by them in warme weather with a fanne to blowe winde vpon them.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Among the rest there is one which they make great account of: for they say hee giueth them all things both foode and apparell, and one sitteth alwayes by him with a fanne to make wind towards him.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Janis herself would attribute her heroin use to the fear that accompanied her growing fanne.

Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

French Ombrelle is translated, "An umbrello; a (fashion of) round and broad fanne, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of a scorching sunne; and hence any little shadow, fanne, or thing, wherewith women hide their faces fro the sunne."

Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848

Take clene whete and bete it small in a morter and fanne out clene the doust, þenne waisthe it clene and boile it tyl it be tendre and broun. þanne take the secunde mylk of Almaundes & do þerto. boile hem togidur til it be stondyng, and take þe first mylke & alye it up wiþ

The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

Among the rest there is one which they make great account of: for they say hee giueth them all things both foode and apparell, and one sitteth alwayes by him with a fanne to make wind towards him.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584

(M380) The King gaue our Captaine at his departure a plume or fanne of Hernshawes feathers died in red, and a basket made of Palme-boughes after the Indian fashion, and wrought very artificially, and a great skinne painted and drawen throughout with the pictures of diuers wilde beasts so liuely drawen and pourtrayed, that nothing lacked but life.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Rhine, in the fanne manner as ihe has placed the Tyrolefe as a Eoe of demarcation for the houfe of Auftria.

A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1797

The pulpit, in fanne. which be preached, is fttll prelcrvcJ in LuTsCNiNEN, a ritcr of the bailiwick it's church.

The universal gazetteer : being a concise description ... of the nations, kingdoms, states, towns ... &c. in the known world ; the government, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ... of the different countries. Illustrated with a complete set of maps 1795

The thought of lying under the fanne roof with fome living creature fo filled him with joy, that he did not trouble himfelf in the kail about the fpecies of the animal.

The new Robinson Crusoe : an instructive and entertaining history for the use of children of both sexes, translated from the French 1789