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When The Feeling’s Right, Now. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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PART of the play, act iv.sc. 4, they both give “SPRUNG from a tyrants loynes.”
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Thyrde fromme hys loynes the present Canynge came;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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For we yet possesse the learned compositions of the ancient and noble Earles of Foix, from out whose heroicke loynes your husband and you take your ofspring.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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God is forced to hedg up their way with thornes, or lay affliction on their loynes, that so they might shake hands with the world before it bid them farewell
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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"Supporters, pooters, fardingales, above the loynes to weare;" and the _guardainfante_, the oval hoop peculiar to Spain, was in full blow; and the robes of a dowager might have curtained the tun of
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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Isaiah 21: 3 Therefore are my loynes filled with paine, pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travelleth: I was bowed downe at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
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When God laid the sorrowes of conception, of breeding, of bringing forth, and of bringing up her children upon her, & so upon us in her loynes, did shee reply any word against?
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When God laid the sorrowes of conception, of breeding of bringing forth and of bringing up her children upon her, 83 & so upon us in her loynes, did shee reply any word against?
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And o're her weake and all ore-teeming loynes, a blancket
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto William Shakespeare 1590
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