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Stories like this make me contemplate taking that one step closer meeting in rooms where the roofe thereof is decked with images of starres gilted.
Another satisfied “customer” walks away laughing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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A tapestry set depicting "a king riding in a chariott in a blewe gowne with starres" was likely the Alexander tapestry listed in her 1523 inventory. 157 The Inventory described the 1547 tapestry set as depicting a "fier in the middes," which separated two portrayals of a woman in the clouds.
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III. iv, a 1577 that the chamber was so called ‘because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted’, appears to have no confirmatory evidence, but is highly probable.
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Her life was endangered by a sharpe pointed Javeline, and yet her fairer starres would not suffer her so to perish: beside, they have both escaped the fury of ravenous wild beasts; and all these are apparant signes, that future comforts should recompence former passed misfortunes; farre be it therefore from me, to hinder the appointment of the Heavens.
The Decameron 2004
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Thei make compte also of xxiiij. other starres: without, and beside the waie of the zodiaque, xii. towarde the Northe, and the residewe towarde the Southe.
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Hoyst vp thy sailes, delay attrackts thy sinne, Flie from ill-boding starres with all thy might, Vnto thy hart let praise and pittie in.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Star Chamber was a room constructed in 1347 in the royal palace at Westminster, its ceiling decorated with “starres gilted.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Star Chamber was a room constructed in 1347 in the royal palace at Westminster, its ceiling decorated with “starres gilted.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The moone when she riseth goeth with thousands of starres accompanied like a king, and therefore is chiefe: but the Sunne goeth alone, and therefore not so great.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Against whom the Banianes reason, that it is not true; because the Moone and starres receiue their light from the Sunne, neither doth the Sunne vouchsafe them his company but when he list, and therefore like a mighty prince goeth alone, yet they acknowledge the Moone as Queene or Viceroy.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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