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Mille quadringentos habere solet ad præliandum elephantes, quos sibi nutriunt villani per regnum.
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Mille quadringentos habere solet ad pr鎙iandum elephantes, quos sibi nutriunt villani per regnum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He writes "Bibbia dei villani" for the festival of Benevento.
Dario Fo - Biography 1998
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Mr. Bowles in his _History of Bremhill_, makes a few observations suggested by the account in _Domesday Book_, on the wages, and some of the prices of agricultural produce on the farms where the _villani_ and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 Various
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He proposed a walk around the town, to see what was going on among the _villani_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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'It's always so,' said a fat man next to Caper, 'these _villani_ take the bread out of our mouths; but _ecco_! there is another one who has the _terno_; blessed be the Madonna, there is a third!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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The _villani_, or villeins, corresponding to the Saxon _ceorls_, were the most important class of tenants in villeinage, and each held about thirty acres in scattered acre or half-acre strips, each a furlong in length and a perch or two in breadth, separated by turf balks.
English Villages 1892
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It would indeed be strange if the house had no land immediately attached to it; we know that in the Anglo-Saxon village community the villani, bordarii and cotagii, had their garden croft attached to their dwellings, apart from such strips as they might hold from the lord of the manor in the open fields.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Besides these were the _villeins_ or _villani_, or
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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Mille quadringentos habere solet ad præliandum elephantes, quos sibi nutriunt villani per regnum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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