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Teh ligamunts R moer strechy tahn tehy shud be so, insted ob halpin teh joynts moov teh rite amownt, tehy let teh joynts moov too far sumtyms
Hi-efishunzy edishun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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There was a narrow passage or entrie, as often we see reserved betweene two houses, for eithers benefit to such a needfull place; and boards loosely lay upon the joynts, which such as were acquainted withall, could easily avoide any perille in passing to or from the stoole.
The Decameron 2004
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_Garth_, is thus known: Gripe the Cock about from the joynts of your
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Unfold his Legs, and cut off his wings by the joynts, then take up his wings and his legs, and sauce them with powder of ginger, mustard, vinegar, and salt.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Fingers; who taking him by the hand in the night, can so discourse with him very exactly; for he feeling the joynts which she toucheth for letters, by them collected into words, very readily conceives what shee would suggest unto him.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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"Mugwort," says Gerard, "cureth the shakings of the joynts inclining to the palsie."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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_Babington_ of _Burntwood_ in the County of _Essex_, an ingenious gentleman, who through some sicknesse becoming _deaf_, doth notwithstanding feele words, and as if he had an eye in his finger, sees signes in the darke; whose Wife discourseth very perfectly with him by a strange way of Arthrologie or Alphabet contrived on the joynts of his
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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Let a man (saith Horace) make his worke loose all seames, measures, and joynts.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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(The Danger of the Sea excepted), And also that if either of the said Vessels happens to be lost in any Engagement or otherways each Vessels Owners shall Share and divide as herein beforementioned, And also that in Case any of the Men belonging to either of the said Vessels happens to loose a joynt or joynts, Limb or
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Sir THOMAS is disposed to think that "the hint and ground of this opinion might be the grosse and somewhat cylindricall composure of the legs of the elephant, and the equality and lesse perceptible disposure of the joynts, especially in the forelegs of this animal, they appearing, when he standeth, like pillars of flesh;" but he overlooks the fact that PLINY has ascribed the same peculiarity to the
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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