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  • noun Plural form of waye.

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Examples

  • And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?

    John Lundberg: Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick 2010

  • And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?

    John Lundberg: Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick 2010

  • And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?

    John Lundberg: Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick 2010

  • And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?

    John Lundberg: Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick 2010

  • And while I doubt that Milton would approve of his poem -- which he hoped would help to "justifie the wayes of God to men" -- getting the Hollywood Blockbuster treatment, is it a crime to spend a little of our light watching angels battle in the skies?

    John Lundberg: Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick 2010

  • And therefore they being themselves invisible to us, and capable of working in wayes that our sences cannot discerne; and being Agents of great craft & long experience; tis no wonder that many of their actions, thô never so pollytickly contrived & carried on, should seem irrationall to us: who know so little of their particular inclinations & designes, and the subtil

    Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

  • He also remarks about the world that if it be Finite [which Boyle allows as a possibility], then ˜tis not in a place (such as the Schools define) after the manner of other Bodys, since there is no ambient Body whose inward surface determines it; and we may conceive it to move several wayes, as upwards or downwards, and yet not to change place, because

    Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

  • Eeles, are (say some) diversly bred; as namely, out of the corruption of the earth, and by dew, and other wayes (as I have said to you:) and yet it is affirmed by some, that for a certain, the Silver – Eele breeds by generation, but not by

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • And it is observed by Gesner, that the bones, and hearts, & gals of Pikes are very medicinable for several Diseases, as to stop bloud, to abate Fevers, to cure Agues, to oppose or expel the infection of the Plague, and to be many wayes medicinable and useful for the good of mankind; but that the biting of a Pike is venemous and hard to be cured.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • And justifie the wayes of God to men. posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 3:44 AM

    Milton's "great Argument" Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

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