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Ok first off manny had an abortion in the third season wen craig got her pregnant and i noe mannys made mistakes but shes learned now and is a nice girl (geez im talkin bout a fictional character) im so sad ryan cooley is leaving the show he was awesome.
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September 7th, 2006 at 4:55 pm mannys mission says:
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He then remarks that "dyverse tokenes have be schewede in Englonde this year for amendynge of mannys lyvynge," and proceeds to enumerate several springs or waters in various places, which only ran at intervals, and by their running always portended "derthe, pestylence, or grete batayle."
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Yet Halliwell, quoting from a Bodleian MS., says: "Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and eteth noon other flesh fro that tyme that thei be a-charmed with mannys flesh for rather thei wolde be deed; and thei be cleped werewolfes for men shulde be war of them."
Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918
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Scorpion of the see is so named because wha {n} he is taken in any mannys handes he pricketh him w {i} t {h} his stinge of his tayle.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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‘If any wynes be corrupted, _reboyled_, or unwholsome for mannys body, then by the comtroller it to be shewed at the counting bourde, so that by assent all suche pypes or vesselles defectife be dampned and cast uppon the losses of the seyd chiefe Butler.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Thenne folowyth it yt gode dysportes and honest games ben cause of mannys fayr aege and longe life.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Also that ye breke noo mannys heggys in goynge abowte your dysportes: ne opyn noo mannes gates but that ye shytte theym agayn.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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For after a fysshe is taken in a mannys gynne yf the gynne be layed in the comyn waters: or elles in suche waters as he hireth, it is his owne propre goodes.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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For a wyse mannys tunge without advysement trypes.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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