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"straunger" would straightway find the "ducks" flying about his head, and be glad to make his escape from the village with his life.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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These if they lacke meate to refreshe the niedy straunger and pelligrine, yet at the least waie they giue him herbour and lodgyng.
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There was in Babilon a Temple dedicate to Venus, and it hath bene the maner in tyme paste, that when their came any straunger to visite this Temple, all the women of Babilon should come vnto him or them, with greate solempnitie and fresshely appareiled, euery one hauing a garlande on her heade, with some seueralle knowledge of distinction one from another, and offre their seruice to the straungier.
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A people altogether giuen vnto leachery, and yet absteining from the enbrasinges of the straunger.
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So that theineither will eate ne drincke with them: no nor lye in the chambre that a straunger of a nother nacion lyeth in.
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These people with a whole consent, are mayntayners of peace towarde all men, straunger and other.
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Thou arte a Normanne, Hughe, a straunger to the launde.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Thou art a straunger and liuest here a beastly life, ioyned with continuall labour: I haue twelve hundred crownes with certaine Iewelles, which that false traitour gaue me, which he predestinated by the heauens for none other purpose but to paie them their hire, which shall do the vengeaunce vpon his disloyall persone.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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“Thou straunger of Athens, is our felicitie in such litle reputation with thee that thou doest preferre before vs these priuate men?”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Besiegd of many foes, whom straunger knightes to flight compell.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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