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That in his owene grece I made hym frye For angre, and for verray jalousye.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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That in his owene grece I made hym frye For angre, and for verray jalousye.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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QUOTATION: Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
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And after his wifue he sende sonde {;} to his owene londe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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After all I am free; "I am myn owene woman"; no husband to say to me
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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a splendid misery [Thomas Jefferson, No. 1493] The Eagle has landed [Neil Armstrong, No. 1737] Because its there [George Mallory, No. 1741] dooth with youre owene thyng [Geoffrey Chaucer, No. 447]
Introduction 1989
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werende on worlde. lude and stille. his owene wille. hwanne cumeþ ealde. ne myht þu hyne awelde.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Revisiting a childhood filled with pressures and trials of all sorts, with too much stage-door parenting and too little of the more supportive variety, the mature woman, liberated to tell her tale, reveals herself at last, like Chaucer’s Criseyde, truly “myne owene woman, wel at ese.”
Cover to Cover 2008
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Revisiting a childhood filled with pressures and trials of all sorts, with too much stage-door parenting and too little of the more supportive variety, the mature woman, liberated to tell her tale, reveals herself at last, like Chaucer’s Criseyde, truly “myne owene woman, wel at ese.”
Cover to Cover 2008
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