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Which when they haue gathered out of the floude, and sliced out in maner of lace: they brayde together muche like oure figge fraile, or suche like kinde of mattinge, and make them selues ierkins therof.
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Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, Potato-roots,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This deed is sealed & delivered yet all not worth a figge
Deed of Entail 1998
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"If these leaves be dried in an oven after the bread is drawne out, and the powder thereof be taken in a figge, or raisin, or strewed upon a piece of [110] bread spread with honey, and eaten, it killeth worms in children exceedingly."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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"Many idle toyes, but the old play _that Adam and Eve acted in bare action under the figge tree draws most of the gentlemen_."
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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Genesis was rendered, "The eyes of them bothe were opened ... and they sowed figge-tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches."
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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A wall is the best fence, and on the north wall, 'against which the sunne reflects, you shall plant the abricot, verdochio, peache, and damaske plumbe; against the east side the white muskadine grape, the pescod plumbe, and the Emperiale plumbe; against the west, the grafted cherries and the olive tree; and against the south side the almond and the figge tree.'
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_ Many idle toyes; but the old play that Adam and Eue [xiv: 4] acted in bare action vnder the figge tree drawes most of the
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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On way to davenport for 130 town hall meeting at figge art museum newtgingrich : My oped in Quad City Times: Optional flat tax will launch recovery GovGaryJohnson : Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption: : Live chat with WaPo author of Rubio emigration story right now: Mitt Romney nabs endorsement of ex-Gov.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Nia-Malika Henderson 2011
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God blesse his soule, and a figge then for all worldly condemnation.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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