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If people are so bloody concerned about gender inequity, go work in a women's shelter or reape crisis centre.
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Iz gytting kinda tiredz a dah repe…reape… dah againz images
that’s how I roll. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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They reape wheat in February, and againe in May, which is excellent good, and maketh bread as white as snow.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Barbarie, for that the poore people may reape great profite by the trade.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the whole world there is not a tree more profitable and of more goodnesse then this tree is, neither doe men reape so much benefit of any other tree as they doe of this, there is not any part of it but serueth for some vse, and none of it is woorthy to be burnt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Russie meanes to reape the profit of her pride, And so he mewes her to be sure, she lye by no mans side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now, as touching the making of your hils, you shall vnderstand that although generally they are not made the first yéere, yet it is not amisse if you omit that scruple, and beginne to make your hils as soone as you haue placed your poales, for if your industry be answerable to the desert of the labour, you shall reape as good profit the first yéere, as either the second or the third.
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Sythes, then to reape them with Hookes, and much sooner, and with lesse charge performed.
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Now for this fallow field it must euer be made where the yéere before you did reape your Pease, in case you haue but thrée fields, or where you did reape your Wheate, Rye, and Maslin, in case you haue foure fields, according to the manner of the blacke clay.
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Next after your cleane Rye, you shall in the selfe-same sort reape your blend-Corne, or Masline: and albeit your Wheate will not be fully so ripe as your Rye, yet you shall not stay your labour, being well assured that your Rye is ready, because
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