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  • Tityrus, happilie then lyste tumbling under a beech tree,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The donne cutte: the body of blacke wull & a yelow lyste after eyther syde: the wynges of the bosarde bounde on wyth barkyd hempe.

    Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005

  • Eers is die name van verskeie bekende persoonlikhede misbruik sonder hulle toestemming ten einde publisiteit aan die ANC sy lyste te gee.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Oh Raufe, comme lyste, and hear mie dernie [9] tale,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • _Tityrus, happilie then lyste tumbling under a beech tree,

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Not withstandynge you maye adde them in your mynde before you sette them downe, as in this exa {m} ple, you myghte haue sayde 5 tymes 300 is 1500, {and} 5 tymes 60 is 300, also 5 tymes 5 is 25, whiche all put together do make 1825, which you maye at one tyme set downe yf you lyste.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Geát ungemetes wel ... restan lyste (_the Geát_ [Beówulf] _longed sorely to rest_), 1794. lyt, adj.neut. (= parum), _little, very little, few_: lyt eft becwom ... hâmes niósan (_few escaped homeward_), 2366; lyt ænig (_none at all_),

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Gēat ungemetes wēl ... restan lyste (_the Gēat_ [Bēowulf] _longed sorely to rest_), 1794. lȳt, adj.neut. (= parum), _little, very little, few_: lȳt eft becwōm ... hāmes nīosan (_few escaped homeward_), 2366; lȳt ǣnig (_none at all_),

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Gēat ungemetes wēl, rōfne rand-wigan restan lyste:

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Geát ungemetes wel, rôfne rand-wîgan restan lyste:

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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