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Whereto her Mayde thus answered: Mistresse, never talke of doing any violence to your selfe, because by such a blacke and dismall deed, as you have lost his kind company here in this life, so shall you never more see him in the other world: for immediately you sinke downe to hell, which foule place cannot be a receptacle for his faire soule, that was endued with so many singular vertues.

The Decameron 2004

The floating Moone would shipwracke there, and sinke?

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

But yet concerning Simonida her selfe, in the common opinion of us that remaine living: her true vertue and innocency (though Fortune was otherwise most cruell to her) would not suffer her to sinke under the testimony of Strambo,

The Decameron 2004

Calandrino, every minute ready to sinke under his weightie burthen, entred into his owne house, where (by great ill luck) his wife, being a comely and very honest woman, and named Monna Trista, was standing aloft on the stayres head.

The Decameron 2004

With all which so great and terrible an ostentation, they did not in all their sailing round about England, so much as sinke or take one shippe,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Fleete, and had beene in great torment and distresse, and readie to sinke: for they were forced to vse all their Pumps: so that they wished a thousand times to haue met with the Englishmen to whom they would willingly haue giuen their siluer and all that euer they brought with them onely to saue their liues.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

It is no part of our meaning (I say) to defile these papers with his stinking slanders, or with the filthy sinke of his reproches.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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

Whereupon the Salomon being a hot shippe, and hauing sundry cast pieces in her, gaue the first shotte in such a sowre sort, as that it shared away so many men as sate on the one side of a Gallie, and pierced her through in such maner, as that she was readie to sinke, which made them to assault vs the more fiercely.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Why then, said he, if they wil neither come to yeeld, nor shew obedience to me in the name of any king, I wil either sinke them or bring them to harbor, and so tell them from me.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003