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Hey how about that … two good puns … one as a post and the very first comment we are treated to an additional pun from “gette.”
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According to a commenter at a local surfer's website: Demo is possibly one of the best gette jetty breaks on long island.
Democrat Point sfmike 2008
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According to a commenter at a local surfer's website: Demo is possibly one of the best gette jetty breaks on long island.
Archive 2008-08-01 sfmike 2008
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When resorte so increaseth that they grow in suspition, and the pottes which are sent so often too the Tauerne, gette such a knock before they come home, that they returne their Mayster a crack to his credite: Though hee bee called in question of his life, hee hath shiftes inoughe to auoyde the blanke.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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Thei are content with suche foode as commeth to hande, desiryng no suche as other menne tourne the worlde almoste vpside downe to haue, leauing no element vnransaked to gette a gowbin35 for their glotenous gorge: but suche as the earth vnploughed, or vndoluen, yeldeth of her self.
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For therefore ought they alwayes to send forth band against band and troupe against troupe, because the Tartar euer practiseth to gette his enemie in the midst and so to enuiron him.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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For therefore ought they alwayes to send forth band against band and troupe against troupe, because the Tartar euer practiseth to gette his enemie in the midst and so to enuiron him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Southeastwarde, to gette about the Island of Iaua, and we followed her.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Of crepe geor-gette, a heavy chiffon, the dress was only slightly fitted at the waist, but sashed around the hips with the same material.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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¶ The thyrd kynde is the expression of lighter affeccions, as when wee go about by fayre meanes to gette the mery affeccions of menne to vs ward or to other, & when the mynd is lyft vp into hope, myrth,
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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