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I warn you in any case, wear the things not overmany days at a stretch.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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He made all these intellectual concepts plastic in a music of a brilliance and a sprightliness and mordancy that not overmany classic symphonies can rival.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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So they were all landed; but ther was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls [AO] for them, neither had they any beding, but some sory things they had in their cabins, nor pot, nor pan, to drese any meate in; nor overmany cloaths, for many of them had brusht away their coats & cloaks at Plimoth as they came.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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Rustico, who lived on roots and water, could ill avail to answer her calls and told her that it would need overmany devils to appease hell, but he would do what he might thereof.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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So they were all landed; but ther was not so much as bisket - cake or any other victialls f for them, neither had they any beding, but some sory things they had in their cabins, nor pot, nor pan, to drese any meate in; nor overmany cloaths, for many of them had brusht away their coats & cloaks at Plimoth as they came.
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But there needed not overmany prayers, for that, on the one hand, shame of the fault committed and desire to make amends for it, and on the other, the fear of death and the wish to escape, -- to say nothing of his ardent love and longing to possess the thing beloved, -- made Ricciardo freely and without hesitation avouch himself ready to do that which pleased Messer Lizio; whereupon the latter borrowed of Madam Giacomina one of her rings and there, without budging, Ricciardo in their presence took Caterina to his wife.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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There are not overmany like Governor Winthrop in the world. "
True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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