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They are clad in Seale skins, with the hairie side outwards downe as low as the knees, with their breeches and netherstockes of the same, both men and women.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moore vowes are recorded in the court of heaven for they are holly acts. yong man I charge thee and doe advize thee start not from yt vow and for I will be sure thou shalt not shreve besids because It is an odious sight to see a man thus hairie. thou shalt lie
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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They are clad in Seale skins, with the hairie side outwards downe as low as the knees, with their breeches and netherstockes of the same, both men and women.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In Sommer they vse to weare the hairie side of their coates outward, and sometime goe naked for too much heate.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Mirabell, whereby he offended his eldest sonne the yoong king (as after may appeare) who was glad to haue occasion (whome the poets faine to be bald behind and hairie before, as this monastich insinuateth,
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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647: In pitteous chase: and thus the hairie foole,
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From this weather-beaten old soldier, Purchas was amazed to hear "of a kinde of Great Apes, if they might so bee termed, of the height of a man, but twice as bigge in feature of their limmes, with strength proportionable, hairie all over, otherwise altogether like men and women in their whole bodily shape.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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From this weather-beaten old soldier, Purchas was amazed to hear "of a kinde of Great Apes, if they might so bee termed, of the height of a man, but twice as bigge in feature of their limmes, with strength proportionable, hairie all over, otherwise altogether like men and women in their whole bodily shape.
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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