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Nowe being thus betweene the North cape, and cape S. Vincent, and yet keeping, such a course a loofe, that by no meanes, those from the shoare might be able to descrie vs: The tenth of Iune, a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Furst take a loofe of trenchurs in þy lifft hande, þañ take þy table knyfe, [69] as y haue seid afor {e} hande;
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Pequents drew into a body, and acoasted them, thinking to have some advantage against them by [DX] reason of a neck of land; but when they saw the English prepare for them, they kept a loofe, so as they neither did hurt, nor could receive any.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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Nowe being thus betweene the North cape, and cape S. Vincent, and yet keeping, such a course a loofe, that by no meanes, those from the shoare might be able to descrie vs: The tenth of Iune, a French Barke, and a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The Dolphin lay a loofe off and durst not come neere, while the other two small shippes fledde away, so that one of the Gallies went from the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The head of the Refolution's rudder being found exceedingly fhaken, and mod of the pintles either loofe or broken, it was unhung, and fent on fnore on the a7th, in the morning, to undergo a thorough repair.
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Thefe young ladies were very richly dreifed, with loofe garments of filk, and fmall coronets on their heads.
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For as thereby we might better have confulted our own profk and & tisfa£tion, than by the other loofe roving way of life; fo it might probably have proved of public benefit to our nation, and been a means of introducing an EngUfli fettlement and trade, not only here, but through feveral of the fpice-iflands which lie in its neighbouithood*
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No! his own beldved Monticello is not Itfs moved by the ftorms that beat againft his fides than he hears with compofure, if he hears at all,, the howlings of the whole Britifh pack fet loofe from the Effex kennel!
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Upon examination they found their teeth loofe; and that many of them had every other fymptom of an inveterate fea fcurvy.
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