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- adjective Archaic form of
healthful .
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Examples
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View image of page have the happy and healthfull influences of the vital
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,August 28, 1857 2008
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Since then I go party every year - in the same costume (well, almost, my Italian shoes gave out - and my aging feet would not fit in those frilly footwear any longer ... aging is not fun, well, not ALL fun ...), leaving a lighted pumpkin and a basket of colorfull - and healthy - apples - interspersersed with some chocolates (who are supposed to be sort of healthfull, too).
Trick or Treat??? 2005
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But be of good comfort Gossip, and feare not, for I can charme them in such sort, that they shall all die, and before I depart hence, you shall see your Son as healthfull as ever.
The Decameron 2004
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My reason is, the place is healthfull and pleasant, and the gaines very good, and no doubt the profit will bee hereafter better, things being vsed in good order: for there should come in euery ship the fourth part of her
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At the last doore, the Matrone _Mnemosina_ perswaded me verie effectually, not to doubt of any thing, but that I should stedfastly follow the royall perswasion, and healthfull counsell of the Queene, and perseuere in the execution thereof, for that the ende without doubt would be to my content.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Christians/and dyd glorie in the confessinge of that healthfull name.
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Behold I am come to take pitty of thy fortune and tribulation, behold I am present to favour and ayd thee, leave off thy weeping and lamentation, put away all thy sorrow, for behold the healthfull day which is ordained by my providence, therefore be ready to attend to my commandement.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Thus the papistes do spoile men of healthfull hope/ãd make mẽ doubt/if not despaire/which is not to be done: for that nature of hope maie not be inuerted which Paule teacheth
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Thou seest also that the ayre is healthfull, the lymittes and bounds of this place verie large: of hearbes full of varietie.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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A ground most healthfull, the grasse coole and sweet: and from the trees resounded the sweete consents of small chirping birds.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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