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Then have fresh fish scal'd, washed, dryed, and parted into equal pieces, season them with pepper, nutmeg, salt, and set them by; then make ready shell-fish, and season them as the other fishes lightly with the same spices.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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In feasts the carps being scal'd, garnish the body with stewed oysters, some fryed in white batter, some in green made with the juyce of spinage: sometimes in place of sippets use fritters of arms, somtimes horse-raddish, and rub the dish with a clove or two of garlick.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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They heard, and straight obey'd; some scal'd the wall:
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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After a quarter of an houres hard service, his men gott the trench and scal'd the rampier, where many of the enemy fledd, the rest were slayne.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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She's e'ne setting on water to scal'd such Chic-kens
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For sure the people must have their eyes thicker scal'd than were S* Paul's, if they don't see that a government & people are to be made a sacrifice to the private malice of a few wicked fellows.
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For sure the people must have their eyes thicker scal'd than were S* Paul's, if they don't see that a government & people are to be made a sacrifice to the private malice of a few wicked fellows.
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