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After this he landed, and ioining with Androgeus, came into a vallie néere to Canturburie, and there incamped.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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The vallie by the side of the water of Dée, by occasion whereof he was surnamed Glindour Dew.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Betwixt the which there passed downe a delicious vallie, wherein was the delicate sepulcher of my wounded hart exceeding the famous
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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After this the Saxons were permitted to depart without impeachment, & so to returne from whence they came, who being now out of all feare, and preparing to go their waies, diuers bands of footmen were sent to lie priuilie in a certeine hid vallie so ambushed, as they might easilie breake foorth vpon the enimies as they passed by them.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Some of the Englishmen got them to the height of an hill, and beate backe the Normans that forced themselues to win the hill of them, so that it was long yer the Normans could preuaile, being oftentimes driuen downe into the botome of the vallie beneath.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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And also, the fees, fealties, and seruices which belonged to him in the countie of Amund, and in the vallie called
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Standing bare-legged in her 'sark-vallie-coat,' at twelve o'clock at night, conferring with the devil, who was dressed in green clothes.
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Pierre castell with the appurtenances, the vallie of Noualleise, also
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Evil befall hym who callyth her a mere lylye of ye vallie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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D. Ye mid burn the wold bass-viol that I set such vallie by.
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