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  • Done--If I wus a greete speler, I wouldnut bee a denist, but some kind of book riter person.

    Dental Insurance-Part 1: A Good Idea? Dr. Dean Brandon 2006

  • Secretly she sent a faithfull Chambermaide of her owne, to greete Anastasio on her behalfe; humbly entreating him te come see her: because now she was absolutely determined, to give him satisfaction in all which (with honour) he could request of her.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The greete kynge Brutus thanne theie dyd hym greete, 25

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Wyth such greete thoughtes as dyd with thee abyde,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Thus stoode Campynon, greete but hertlesse knyghte,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Such is greete Canynge's mynde when payrd to God elate.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Theie rose; ynne battle was greete Locryne sleene;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Most reuerend Fath9 in God, right trusty & welbeloued Counsello9, wee greete you well.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1934

  • In 1472 the archbishop's household was broken up, and the "greete klerkys and famous doctors" of his entourage went to Cambridge.

    Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

  • _ These officers make provysyons in seasons of the yere accordynge for fruytes to be had of the Kinges gardynes withoute prises; as cherryes, peares, apples, nuttes greete and smalle, for somer season; and lenten, wardens, quinces and other; and also of presentes gevyn to the Kinge; they be pourveyours of _blaundrelles_, pepyns, and of all other fruytes.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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