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Applying this method now to the present instance, Mr. Cromarty, the first point to observe is that the room is twenty-six feet long, measured from the windie, which is a bit recessed or set back, as it were, to the other end of the apartment.
Simon 1907
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On the evening after the stained-glass 'windie' had been set up in the new kirk and dedicated to the memory of Saint Cuthbert, the Reverend
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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Eastsoutheast close by the winde: at a West sunne we were at an anker vnder the Southwest part of the said Vaigats, and then I sent our skiffe to shoare with three men in her, to see if they might speake with any of the Samoeds, but could not: all that day was rainie, but not windie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To whom (saith he) see that thou wend vnto the windie coast,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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'See, there's the licht i' the windie showing fine. '
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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When we came down there were bonfires an 'bell-ringings, an' cheerings, an 'mostly every windie wi' a lit candle, maybe twa-three, in it.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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Doe you not see great trees, whose toppes doe rise aloft, aboue high hilles and stepe mountaines, soner shaken and tossed with blustering windie blastes, than those that be planted, in fertile dales and low valleis?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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First, a black Palmer ribbed with silver: the second, a black Palmer with an Orange-tauny body: thirdly, a black Palmer, with the body made all of black: fourthly, a red Palmer ribbed with gold, and a red hackle mixed with Orenge cruel; these Flies serve all the year long morning and evening, windie and cloudie.
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I'll shut tae the windie and grup the figure here on the bed. '
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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'A stained-glass windie micht be a guid an 'righteous gift, I'm thinkin'. '
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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