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  • “He told me that he had purchased a house fraim sic for me and it was on board, but when I arrived here, I found that he had not paid for it.”

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “He told me that he had purchased a house fraim sic for me and it was on board, but when I arrived here, I found that he had not paid for it.”

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “He told me that he had purchased a house fraim sic for me and it was on board, but when I arrived here, I found that he had not paid for it.”

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “He told me that he had purchased a house fraim sic for me and it was on board, but when I arrived here, I found that he had not paid for it.”

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • No stoopy skratchypost needed. yes we haz jungle room, Iz in it now. btw Juicyface has 11 claws on front pauses clooding two on one toe. him shredding chair down to fraim!

    …tonight - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs.

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

  • Sunk about one foot lower than the bottom fore of the house, this fire place is about 8 feet long and Six feet wide Secured with a fraim those houses are calculated for 4, 5 & 6 families, each familey haveing a nice painted ladder to assend up to their beads.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Size are Crossed at right angles and fastened with a throng to each hoop and also where each Stick Crosses each other. then the Skin when green is drawn tight over this fraim and fastened with throngs to the brim or outer hoop So as to form a perfect bason. one of those Canoes will carry 6 or 8 Men and their loads.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • C. joined me from the lower camp with the Clahclellah cheif. there is an old village situated about halfway on the portage road the fraim of the houses, which are remarkably large one 160 by 45 feet, remain almost entire. the covering of the houses appears to have been sunk in a pond back of the village. this the chief informed us was the residence occasionally of his tribe. these houses are fraimed in the usual manner but consist of a double set as if oune house had been built within the other. the floors are on a level with the ground. the natives did not croud about us in such numbers today as yesterday, and behaved themselves much better; no doubt the precautions which they observed us take had a good effect.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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