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  • I asked them that sate next to me what it was that I sawe, and they saide, not his finger; for he was yet dead: and that which I saw appeare through the gowne was a beast, but what beast they knew not nor would not tell.

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

  • To church with my wife in the morning, in her new light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • He being gone I to my office, and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her very nobly, and is well made.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • To church with my wife in the morning, in her new light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • He being gone I to my office, and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her very nobly, and is well made.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • He being gone I to my office, and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her very nobly, and is well made.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • To church with my wife in the morning, in her new light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • To church with my wife in the morning, in her new light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1664/65 Pepys, Samuel 1665

  • He being gone I to my office, and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her very nobly, and is well made.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664

  • I asked them that sate next to me what it was that I sawe, and they saide, not his finger; for he was yet dead: and that which I saw appeare through the gowne was a beast, but what beast they knew not nor would not tell.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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