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  • Whether they are here illegally or not they are having taxes tacken out of their paycheck.

    Illegal Immigrants Downtown Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • Your Honner got her away, it seems, by a false letter to her, macking believe as how her she-cuzzen, that she derely loved, was coming to see her; and was tacken ill upon the rode: and so Miss

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • This answer receaved, credite heard, preconceaved malice sufficientlie espyed, consultatioun was tacken what was expedient to be done.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • We stayed nott till that we came to Striveling, whiche we did the day efter that we departed from Edinburgh; for it was concluded, that thair consultatioun should be tacken, what was the nixt remeady in so desperat

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Cunze-hous, [874] tacken away be thame, be randered and delivered to

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • That he had tacken the protectioun of thame in his awin hand: 3.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Bot rather whatsoever inconvenient shall happin to follow for lack of ordour tacken, that may be imputed to those that do refuise the same.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • With him was tacken the sowme of four thowsand crownis of the sone, whiche the forenammed Schir Raiff and Schir James moist lovinglie had send for our supporte.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Hammyltoun, God disclosing the wickednes of the wicked, as befoir we have hearde, thare was one Forress of Lynlythqw [113] tacken, who, after long empreasonment in the Sea toure [114] of Sanctandross, was adjudgeit to the fyre by the said Bischop James Betoun, and his doctouris, for non uther cryme but becaus he had ane New Testament in Engliss.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And for the first it was concluded, that the Herauld should be stayed till farder determinatioun should be tacken.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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