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Adjective
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* {{quote-book|year=1590|author=|title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|chapter=|edition=1921 ed. citation
|passage=On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye , And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. }}
* {{quote-book|year=1661|author=Various|title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." }}
Verb
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* {{quote-book|year=1594|author=Christopher Marlowe|title=Massacre at Paris|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home. }}
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