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Anth row pologistz haz studdeed hoomin intell ee gentz whirlld-wide.
come find me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We puttid al teh gentz in dere kostoomz en taykt pikshurz, den mayd lyfe-syze fiberbord cutowtz uv eech uv dem.
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[447] The Commons point out that, as the royal purveyors "abatent et ount abatuz les arbres cressauntz entour les mansions des gentz de ladite commune, en grant damage, gast et blemissement de lour mansions, qe plese à Nostre Seigneur le Roi que desoremes tiels arbres ne seront copés ne pris en contre la volonté des seigneurs des ditz mansions."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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By some folks, "acuns gentz," he means Bohun and Bigod.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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[412] Examples: that the deputies of the counties "soient esluz par commune élection de les meillours gentz des dity countées et nemye certifiez par le viscont (sheriff) soul, saunz due élection."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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This suggests the remark that livery was used not by the members of great households merely, but by brotherhoods and _gentz de mester_; hence it is that Chaucer in his Prologue of the "Canterbury Tales" enumerates
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"Item (quant au tierce) [= n] re S [= r] le Roi disoit [= q] ceo fuist de counge de luy et de sa volunte [= q] gentz de sa retenue portent et usent mesme la Livere de Coler."
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Et sont pris outre les noms dessus escptz des gentz d'armes.
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Et outre le noms surnometz sont mortz des gentz d'armes M.M. ccccxxvi.
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Roi come de son passage et puis q 'no' ne trovasmes le dit counte ne nul autre g'unt poair illeosqes nous no 'treismes dev's leyre et maundasmes noz gentz au chivaucher a conoistre si no' p'uons nulle p't avoir trovez passage lesqueles gentz encontrerent les enemis et avoient faire assemble si qe les uns des ditz enemys estoient mortz et pris les queuz p'soners disoient qe le Roi de France avoient envoiee
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