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  • Strait to search for "fowle" for food on the homeward voyage.

    Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements 1881

  • The collection included, along with those arrows and that mermaid's hand, Anne Boleyn's night veil and "silke knit-gloves"; a dead dodo (which Lewis Carroll saw at Oxford two centuries later, as he was writing "Alice in Wonderland"); a piece of the True Cross; a scourge used by Emperor Charles V; and "beasts, fowle, fishes, serpents, wormes (reall although dead and dryed)."

    How Their Garden Did Grow 2008

  • It emerged that the Langleys had committed abuses in words, blowes, assaults and fowle carriages against him.11 Withers also alleged that the Langleys appropriated the takings from the visitors, and purloined the provisions intended for the patients.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • It emerged that the Langleys had committed abuses in words, blowes, assaults and fowle carriages against him.11 Withers also alleged that the Langleys appropriated the takings from the visitors, and purloined the provisions intended for the patients.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • It emerged that the Langleys had committed abuses in words, blowes, assaults and fowle carriages against him.11 Withers also alleged that the Langleys appropriated the takings from the visitors, and purloined the provisions intended for the patients.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest Turky Cock, and so legged and footed, but stouter and thicker and of a more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a young cock fesan, and on the back of dunn or dearc colour.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • About 1638, as I walked London streets, I saw the picture of a strange fowle hung out upon a clothe and myselfe with one or two more then in company went in to see it.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest Turky Cock, and so legged and footed, but stouter and thicker and of a more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a young cock fesan, and on the back of dunn or dearc colour.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • About 1638, as I walked London streets, I saw the picture of a strange fowle hung out upon a clothe and myselfe with one or two more then in company went in to see it.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Danzick, because the Danzickers put in old cable and rotten stuffe, which in fowle weather is found of no strength.

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

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