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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ring . - verb Obsolete spelling of
range . - verb Obsolete spelling of
reign .
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Examples
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They haue euery man a rynge with a signet, and also a sceptre finely wrought: vppon whose toppe thei vse to sticke either an apple, or a rose, or a lillye, or some lyke thynge.
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The battelle jyned; swerdes uponne swerdes dyd rynge;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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To whome recompting that whiche chaunced, his hoste gaue him aduise incontinently, to get him out of Naples, whiche presently he did: and retourned to Perugia, hauing bestowed his v.C. crownes vpon a rynge, whiche he thought to haue imploied vpon horses: for whiche cause he made that iourney.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And in the bearing out of the lippe of the vessell ouer the perpendicular poynt of the heade there was fastened a rynge, from the which vppon eyther sides there hung downe a garland of braunches, leaues, flowers, and fruites growing bigger towardes the middest, with a perpolyte bynding to eyther ringes.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Be stylle: swythe lette the chyrches rynge mie knelle.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Then to expresse 8, you shall bowe after the same maner both the lyttell fynger and the rynge fynger.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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They haue euery man a rynge with a signet, and also a sceptre finely wrought: vppon whose toppe thei vse to sticke either an apple, or a rose, or a lillye, or some lyke thynge.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I wyll you bringe; and with a rynge, by way of ma - ryage I wyll you. take, and lady make, as ihortely as I can:
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-- and he, who had never killed anything bigger than an insect in his life, lusted to know how it felt to shove your bayonet into a feller or shoot 'im dead at short rynge.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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EVANGELYST; and saye ye vnto Edward your kyng, that I grete him well by the token that he gaff to me, thys _rynge_, with hys one handes [25]. '"
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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