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We call the shavings of fish (which are little worth) gubbings; and sure it is that they are sensible that the word importeth shame and disgrace.

Westward Ho! 2007

And, if the name importeth some evil, then, what may the thing it selfe be, judge you?

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

_Itius Portus_ (which some take to be Calice) and so the word importeth, an harbourgh as then able to receiue a great number of ships.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

We call the shavings of fish (which are little worth) gubbings; and sure it is that they are sensible that the word importeth shame and disgrace.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

Latin word importeth, nor what manner of thing it is which is signified to him in his own native Language, which is given him thereby to understand the Rule?

The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be.

The Essays 2007

Concerning the bounds of unity; the true placing of them, importeth exceedingly.

The Essays 2007

And because the sentence of excommunication importeth an advice not to keep company nor so much as to eat with him that is excommunicate, if a sovereign prince or assembly be excommunicate, the sentence is of no effect.

Leviathan 2007

But above all, for empire and greatness, it importeth most, that

The Essays 2007

And then he requested that wee should without delay write our determination vnto you, as the conclusion of the said letter importeth.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003