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She comes to an Anchor with in a quarter of a mile of the Shore, and a fryar and 4 Negro's getts ashore uppon a Planck and takes to the woods, but some staied on borde the barque. capt.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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DOMINICK, the "Spanish fryar," a kind of ecclesiastical Falstaff.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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As to the hardy feats, both of sword and trencher, performed by this "curtal fryar," behold are they not recorded at length in the ancient ballads, and in the magic pages of Ivanhoe?
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Washington Irving 1821
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I shook the major by the hand, and told him I not only forgave him, but was extremely obliged to his friendship; and then, going to the fryar, I found that he was Bagillard's confessor, from whom he came to me, with an earnest desire of seeing me, that he might ask my pardon and receive my forgiveness before he died for the injury he had intended me.
Amelia — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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I shook the major by the hand, and told him I not only forgave him, but was extremely obliged to his friendship; and then, going to the fryar, I found that he was Bagillard's confessor, from whom he came to me, with an earnest desire of seeing me, that he might ask my pardon and receive my forgiveness before he died for the injury he had intended me.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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There was a Portugueze Dominican fryar belonging to Queen
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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Richard Bokyll, of Lefton, and Alice, and Alice his wives« Sir Henry Harhold,. knight and fryar.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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He was firft buried in our lady's cbaple in a tomb of marble, which was pulled down by fryar Combe, a facrifi: of this houfe; who laid a fair plain marble ftone over him, with this epitaph thus inferibed:
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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The like happened alfo, at two feveral times, between fryar P b c k h a & r; archbiihop of Canterbury, and William Wickwane and John db Roma, archbifhops of York, in the days of king Edward I.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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Falstolfe, an Auguftine fryar,. with maay more of that aotient aad Aobk family.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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