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  • U trained me to do dis undignifyed thing; dah leist u cud do iz clos deh door.

    do u mind - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • April 11, 2007 at 4:04 pm iz too yung to be evil! currupshun needz at leist 6 month.

    I R LIEK SATEN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • January 20, 2005 at 01:29 PM under over sideways down who did that song the Kink or the yard birds good tune though is that aging myself or what I had the 45 alsheimer onset at 52 life sucks sometimes I know they were british not French at leist....

    Bone Throwing (So Kick Me) 2005

  • He is bot soft, and cowld never defend him self in the leist, bot greitt and cry, quhan he vold be scourging him.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Al swa þu leist þine sunne i {n} þare þruh {;} hwenne þu  {60} scrift underuongest of þe sunnen þe þu idon hauest to {} ȝeines godes wille. þenne þu hauest þine su {n} nen ibet {;} eft {er} þines scriftes wissunge. þenne buriest þu þine su {n} nen and bringest heom ut of þine on walde.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • We speik and write to Goddis glorie: [969] The leist of us knawis better quhat obedience is dew to ane lauchfull authoritie, than sche or hir Counsall dois practise the office of sick as worthelie may sitt upoun the sait of justice; for we offer, and we performe, all obedience quhilk God hes commandit; for we nether deny toll, tribute, honour, nor feir till hir, nor till hir officiaris: We onlie brydill hir blynd raige, in the quhilk sche wald erect and mentene idolatrie, and wald murther oure brethren quha refusses the same.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Bot we have chief respect to our weak and infirme brethren, to quham we wald communicate the bottom of our hartes, leist that they be troubiled or carried awaie be diversity of rumoris, quhilk Sathan spredis againist us to the defeating of this our maist godlie interprize: Protestand that gif onie man will note in this our confessioun onie Artickle or sentence repugnand to Gods halie word, that it wald pleis him of his gentleness and for Christian charities sake to admonish us of the same in writing; and we upon our honoures and fidelitie, be Gods grace do promise unto him satisfactioun fra the mouth of God, that is, fra his haly scriptures, or else reformation of that quhilk he sal prove to be amisse.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Kyngis handis, quha maist treason abillie and maist crewellie had socht his lyfe, or at leist to have committit him to perpetuall presoun: [SN:

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Secundlie, The utter depravatioun of our counzie, to conqueiss tharby money to interteyne strangearis, Frensche suldiouris, upoun yow, to mak thame strong haldis, leist ye sould sumtyme expell thame out of your natyve rowmeis. [

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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