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... returning from on board our new carack , The Leopard , which lay at anchor off Billingsgate , and had now got her final orders to make all haste to Calais , in time for the grand market to be held in ten days ' time . By eight o'clock ...
... returning from on board our new carack , The Leopard , which lay at anchor off Billingsgate , and had now got her final orders to make all haste to Calais , in time for the grand market to be held in ten days ' time . By eight o'clock ...
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... returned with fifty more of his household well armed and appointed . Under the protection of this guard , he offered his arm to Wyclif , and escorted him into the churchyard . Perhaps Master Wyclif's presence was of more service to the ...
... returned with fifty more of his household well armed and appointed . Under the protection of this guard , he offered his arm to Wyclif , and escorted him into the churchyard . Perhaps Master Wyclif's presence was of more service to the ...
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... returned him ample measure for all he gave . She was , at the time I came to live there , but twelve years old , but was , as I remember , even then mistress of the household . Every one strove to please her and to minister to her ...
... returned him ample measure for all he gave . She was , at the time I came to live there , but twelve years old , but was , as I remember , even then mistress of the household . Every one strove to please her and to minister to her ...
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... returned to Rye , and utterly de- stroyed , the town by burning it to ashes ; that they had re - em- barked in their ships , without it being possible to attack them , carrying with them , after slaying many score of the others , four ...
... returned to Rye , and utterly de- stroyed , the town by burning it to ashes ; that they had re - em- barked in their ships , without it being possible to attack them , carrying with them , after slaying many score of the others , four ...
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... returned on board their ships , Philip Aubert had hung out the signal to weigh anchor , and by six o'clock , when the tide had just begun to turn , our little squadron sailed away from the bridge of London . ATTEMPTED STOPPAGE OF THE ...
... returned on board their ships , Philip Aubert had hung out the signal to weigh anchor , and by six o'clock , when the tide had just begun to turn , our little squadron sailed away from the bridge of London . ATTEMPTED STOPPAGE OF THE ...
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