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My fword rofe, with pay people, rgair. fi the ridgy foe.
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One pound sugar, one pound butter, one pound cake flour, one pound or ten eggs, rofe water one gill, spices to your taste; watch it well, it will bake in a slow oven in 15 minutes.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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One pound sugar, one pound butter, one pound cake flour, one pound or ten eggs, rofe water one gill, spices to your taste; watch it well, it will bake in a slow oven in 15 minutes.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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I now have an official "rofe mishpacha" --family doctor.
Archive 2006-01-01 Yael K 2006
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By a parte the whole, as: He receyued the straũgers vnder the succour of hys house rofe, for into hys house.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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Its terminal syllable, "ruff," is derived from _rofe_, a wheel, -- with the diminutive _rouelle_, a little wheel or rowel, like that of an ancient spur, -- which the verticillate leaves of this herb closely resemble.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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This so [= m] er they builte a fort with good timber, both strong & comly, which was of good defence, made with a flate rofe & batllments, on which their ordnance were mounted, and wher they kepte constante watch, espetially in time of danger.
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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Sphere (beyng farre of) to be a flat and plaine Circle, and so likewise iudgeth a plaine Square, to be roũd: supposeth walles parallels, to approche, a farre of: rofe and floure parallels, the one to bend downward, the other to rise vpward, at a little distance from you.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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We condufted them into the, tent, where the had fcarcely been feated, when the King rofe up, and in a very graceful manner threw over the captain's (hou) ders the cloak he himfelf wore, put a feathered helmet upon his head, and a curious fan into his band.
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On a wide fwarth of verdure, beneath fome antique caruarinse, rofe a cone, formed coarfely of the bark of trees inferted at bottom in the ground, and terminated at top by a large band of fimilar materials.
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