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  • Iseäranis meeldib mulle loo moraal, et laske jah lollpea muistse maagia kallale, et küll see lollpea ise oma lolli lõpu leiab.

    The Dresden Files - 1x02 - The Boone Identity (2007) Ulmeguru 2008

  • "The seeds," adds Gerard, "are employed in medicines against the stone, and the staying of the laske" (_laxitas_, looseness).

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Then the men of the towne called in their dogs, and took me and bound mee to the staple of a post, and scourged me with a great knotted whip till I was well nigh dead, and they would undoubtedly have slaine me, had it not come to passe, that what with the paine of their beating, and the greene hearbes that lay in my guts, I caught such a laske that I all besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung, and enforced them to leave off.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • For he will {e} a stomak kepe/& helpe poyson a-wey to cast, also he norisheth {e} a mañ to be laske/and evy humer {us} to wast, and w {i} t {h} white bred/he will {e} kepe þy mouthe in tast.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Then the men of the towne called in their dogs, and took me and bound mee to the staple of a post, and scourged me with a great knotted whip till I was well nigh dead, and they would undoubtedly have slaine me, had it not come to passe, that what with the paine of their beating, and the greene hearbes that lay in my guts, I caught such a laske that I all besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung, and enforced them to leave off.

    The Golden Asse 1566

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