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Skilfull Anglers hide their hookes, fit baytes for euery season ;
Archive 2006-03-01 Heo 2006
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Skilfull Anglers hide their hookes, fit baytes for euery season ;
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And being come to the Dorter doore, quickly they lifted it off from the hookes, and being entred, found the two Lovers sweetly imbracing: but yet so amazed at this sudden surprisall, as they durst not stirre, nor speake one word.
The Decameron 2004
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In the dead and silent time of night, when all (but Lovers) take their rest; Ricciardo having provided a Ladder of Ropes, with grapling hookes to take hold above and below, according as he had occasion to use it.
The Decameron 2004
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There was deliuered vnto him a certaine quantity of bread, oile, and rice, with hookes and instruments to fish withall, as also a hand gun and gunpowder.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hee put in the ballast of the said ships, great store of beames of thicke plankes, being hollow and beset with yron pikes beneath, but on eche side full of claspes and hookes, to ioyne them together.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Munday, (31) we doubled about Caninoze, and came at an anker there, to the intent that we might kill some fish if God permit it, and there we gate a great Nuse, which Nuses were there so plentie, that they would scarcely suffer any other fish to come neere the hookes: the said Nuses caried away sundrie of our hookes and leads.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Without any signe of eyther hookes or hinges, below or aboue.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And thousand other wayes, to bait his fleshly hookes.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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And when they had removed the dores out of the hookes, they consulted amongst themselves, how they would handle such as they found in the house.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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