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If his loyns have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, &c.
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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There have Philosophers beene found disdaining this naturall conjunction: witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought6 his children, as proceeding from his loyns, began to spit, saying, That also that excrement proceeded from him, and that also we engendred wormes and lice.
Of Friendship. 1909
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Raysins solis stoned one pound, the loyns and legs of an old Coney,
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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There have Philosophers beene found disdaining this naturall conjunction: witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought [Footnote: Owed.] his children, as proceeding from his loyns, began to spit, saying, That also that excrement proceeded from him, and that also we engendred wormes and lice.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Purchafing blefilngs for the Fruity Thatiilom his loyns deicends.
The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ... 1668
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455: Out of thy loyns; th 'unjust the just hath slain,
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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