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Their shoubes or gownes are hayrie on the outside, and open behinde, with tailes hanging downe to their hammes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Their shoubes or gownes are hayrie on the outside, and open behinde, with tailes hanging downe to their hammes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The men be of a reasonable stature; the women little; all blacke, with a cloth bound about their middle hanging downe to their hammes; all the rest of their bodies be naked: they haue horrible great eares with many rings set with pearles and stones in them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Decker says, "a jewe neuer weares his cap threedbare with putting it off; neuer bends i 'th' hammes with _casting away a leg_, &c."
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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The men be of a reasonable stature; the women little; all blacke, with a cloth bound about their middle hanging downe to their hammes; all the rest of their bodies be naked: they haue horrible great eares with many rings set with pearles and stones in them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(M481) They were naked, wearing their haire long vnto their hammes as the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Hiflaire des hammes, ou Hifiobrt wmvttk de tous lesfeih fks dm momåe. å Paris 178a la.
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit Burcard Gotthelff Struve 1782
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= 93 =, 87. = bare ... hammes: = the uncovered heads and cringing postures of sycophants.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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John Higgins hammes defending champion Ali Carter to lift Welsh Open title
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John Higgins hammes defending champion Ali Carter to lift Welsh Open title
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