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On self-employed buyers, I always requested 2 yrs tax (certified) returnes.
Obama and NRA Ads 2008
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But in nothing he bestowed his money more liberallie than upon gunpowder, a great quantitie whereof he buyes for his owne use, and to supplie the wantes of his comerades; thus furnished with these commodities, but ane empty purse, he returnes to Delserf by seven a clock,
Old Mortality 2004
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Cambaleth to pray for the life of the great Can, and therefore you must shew him some rare thing, that when hee returnes into his owne countrey, he may say, this strange sight or nouelty haue I seene in the city of Canasia.
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The Monke returnes to the mountains, and lets downe the chaine & the cauldron; but with the like successe that he had before.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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If they gaue him so much wares, all charges turned to your worships, as well of the Emperours as of their owne returnes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Monke returnes to the mountains, and lets downe the chaine & the cauldron; but with the like successe that he had before.
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So crauing pardon that he had mistaken him, he returnes againe into the
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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It is called the Tearme, because it does end and terminate busines, or else because it is the _Terminus_ ad quem, that is, the end of the countrey man's journey, who comes up to the Tearme, and with his hobnayle shooes grindes the faces of the poore stones, and so returnes againe.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Husbandmen cast their seede uppon the fertilest ground, which returnes it with the greatest interest: God gives most talents to those that improove them in the best banke.
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No more returnes the yonker with Rose-water and Sugar, but stepping cut of doores, unseene of any, goes away roundly with the cup.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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