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A half-naked boy in the high summer, Leif could go among the Welsh trefs and the fishing villages here and pass for one of their own, and his talent for acquiring information had brought in beforehand a useful harvest.
His Disposition 2010
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Ellis Peters THE SUMMER OF THE DANES A Brother Cadfael Mystery Chapter One The extraordinary events of that summer of 1144 may properly be said to have begun the previous year, in a tangle of threads both ecclesiastical and secular, a net in which any number of diverse people became enmeshed, clerics, from the archbishop down to Bishop Roger de Clinton's lowliest deacon, and the laity from the princes of North Wales down to the humblest cottager in the trefs of Arfon.
His Disposition 2010
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Are they prepared to barter a - wayxheir property and their peace for the hazards and fatigue of a forrtgn war, which promises nothing but povetry land dfis - trefs?
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The body of the Pequots returning from the purfuit of captain Mafon, repaired to Saffacus, at the royal for - „ trefs, and related the doleful ftory of their misfortunes, deftroy They charged them all to his haughtinefs and mifcon - their fort du£l, and threatened him, and his, with immediate de» and flee. ftruftion.
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Ta - rick, a general of the Moors, built a for - trefs here, which he called Gibel-Taiick, that is.
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Historians have treated of the Pequots and Mohea - gans as two diftin33 - trefs with flankers at the four corners, about half a mile north of Stratford ferry.
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Let us always cherifh that generofity of mind, that delicacy of affe£lion, which may render us fenfible to the dif - trefs of a brother, and which may quicken us to the ready and chearful performance of every good and benevo - lent work.
Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796
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Nor ftopt through the fhades to pnrfue His prefent purloin 'd from her trefs.
Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796
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You have given much linneceflary trouble, faid flie, to the mif - trefs of the fliops the books are better, and more expenfive than you intended to pur - chafe, but I will make up the deficiency*
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The ditches and ramparts of this antient for* trefs are remaining to this day, and occuoy near
Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795
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