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January 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm happi birffday tew da yongest heathen!
Camouflage? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Teh sekund oldest is in middle school an teh third in elementary skool, pwobably n teh yongest is kindergarden.
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She among them that was most entred into yeares, exceeded not eight and twenty; and the yongest was no lesse then eighteene; being of Noble descent, faire forme, adorned with exquisite behaviour, and gracious modesty.
The Decameron 2004
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As for the yongest, shee cared not greatly for changing his name, and therefore wisely informed Geoffrey, upon what reason shee had altered his name, and what danger he might fall into, if he should otherwise be discovered; being not satisfied with thus telling him once, but remembring him thereof verie often, which the gentle youth (being so well instructed by the wise and carefull Nurse) did very warily observe.
The Decameron 2004
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Euen our newest men, our yongest men, and our idelest men, and for the most part our slouenly prest men, whom the Justices, (who haue alwayes thought vnwoorthily of any warre) haue sent out as the scumme and dregs of their countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For first I remembered how much I was bound, and how deeply indebted for my yongest brother Edmund Hackluyt, to whom for the space of foure whole yeares your Lordship committed the gouernment and instruction of that honorable yong noble man, your sonne & heire apparant, the lord William Howard, of whose high spirit and wonderful towardlinesse full many a time hath he boasted vnto me.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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You haue also foure sonnes, whom you cannot honourably aduaunce with out my fauour: swearing unto you by my regall Scepter, that if you comfort me in these my troubles, I will endue the three yongest with so large possessions, as they shall haue no cause to be offended with their eldest brother.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In the end, such was the vnkindnesse, or (as I maie saie) the vnnaturalnesse which he found in his two daughters, notwithstanding their faire and pleasant words vttered in time past, that being constreined of necessitie, he fled the land, & sailed into Gallia, there to seeke some comfort of his yongest daughter Cordeilla, whom before time he hated.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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It came at last to my Lord him self, who macking it veray nyce for a lytill space, gave in the end ane plain confessioun, and said, 'I am the yongest man, and yitt have I haid the round desone; and sevin of thame ar menis wyffis.'
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Orl. Orlando my Liege, the yongest sonne of Sir Ro-land
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