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Obs. a1529 SKELTON Col. Cloute 400 [The nuns] Must cast vp theyr blacke vayles, And set vp theyr fucke sayles, To catch wynde with their ventales.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Oh well you people are nuts when you oppose well being for all of America and Americans. billy ray sayles
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If him haz sayles, duz that maik hims a catamaran?
USING TECHNOLOGY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I heer dat gurlskowt kuukees aer beim mayde wib catnip, tu increes sayles.
wellmannered kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Strike your sayles, or else determine to be sunke in the
The Decameron 2004
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The time being propitious for their parting thence, the Mariners hoised their sayles, leaving the port of Alexandria, and sayling prosperously many dayes together.
The Decameron 2004
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Also Of the foresayd canes called Cassan they make sayles for their ships, and litle houses, and many other necessaries.
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Therefore after three days, gyuyng wynde to our sayles, we entered into the Redde Sea, otherwise named Mare
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Hauing therefore dispatched all things about the Prize aforesaid and left our long boat with Captaine Dauis, taking his lesser boat with vs, we made way after this other ship with all the sayles we could beare, holding on our course due East, and giuing order to Captaine
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Musketiers to helpe the shippe: but before they could come at her, the English ship had shot her vnder water, and we saw her sinke into the Sea with all her sayles vp, and not any thing seene of her aboue the water.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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