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His horse Blodug-hofi is not unlike Pegasus, Apollo's favourite steed, for it can pass through fire and water with equal ease and velocity.
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Blodug-hofi, which would dash through fire and water at his command, but also of the magic ship Skidbladnir, a personification of the clouds.
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Dark as the fwelling wave of ocean before the rlfnig winds, when it bends its head near the coaft, came on the hofi: of Cairbar!
The poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson, .. 1796
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Quartern followed quartern, till every fcnfe. waiin 'toncated, and he fell dead drunk on the floor, when his good-natured hofi had him kindly laid, to Aecp off hiE debauch, oh the next dunghill; firfl taking care to prevent his fellow inhabitants of the ftreets from rob - bing liim of tite reA of his treafure, by picking hii pocket of it himfclf. —
Chrysal: Or, the Adventures of a Guinea. Wherein are Exhibited Views of ... 1794
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Vident et fentiunt hoc idem, quod vos, unum virum efie, in quo fumma fint omnia, et eum prope efie, (quo etiam carent cegrius) cujus adventu ipfo atque nomine, tametfi ille ad mari - timum bellum venerit, tamen impetus hofi: ium reprefibs efie intelligunt ac retardatos.
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This inn was better than I expected, and the hofi: very civil.
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