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Ich daubede myn foreheed wyth a moyste towel and did drinke mvch of somer drinkes swich as margaritae and daquiri…
review o’ the day: Geoffrey Chaucer on video games « raincoaster 2006
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And as water is colde and moyst: so is fleume colde and moyste.
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Elements because they be complexioned like the foure Elements, for like as the Ayre is hot and moyst: so is the blooud, hote and moyste.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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And as water is colde and moyst: so is fleume colde and moyste.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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Softe chese not to new nor to olde, is best, for in operacion it is hote and moyste.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The flematike co {m} meth often to dethe thorough great excesse of mete & drinke, or other great labours doinge/for his nature is colde and moyste, & can not well disiest.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Not for to auoyde thirste (for they desire no moyste thynges) but rather of a nature sauluage and wilde, contented with such victualle as commeth to hande.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Claye if it be to moyste wyl not kepe the fashion that is prynted in it: the waxe may be so softe that nothynge can bee made of it.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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(for they desire no moyste thynges) but rather of a nature sauluage and wilde, contented with such victualle as commeth to hande.
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In his "Regiment of Life" (1546) Thomas Phaer says: "... which humours are called ye sones of the Elements because they be complexioned like the foure Elements, for like as the Ayre is hot and moyst: so is the blooud, hote and moyste.
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