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damask robe and xv
Seeing his liberality, we returned some of his daggers and arquebuses to him, giving him in addition, a flag, a yellow damask robe, and xv brazas of cloth; to his son, a cloak of blue cloth; to a brother of the governor, a robe of green cloth and other things; and we parted from them as friends.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

de Rheims au XIII
, Rheims monumental (Rheims, 1880), 12mo; Anthyme Saint-Paul, “La cathédrale de Rheims, au XIII e siècle,” in Bulletin Monumental , 1906, vol.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

defeated Roman army xxii
Busa, Apulian woman, entertains at Canusium the remains of the defeated Roman army, xxii.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

du Roi au XVIeme
Numerous particulars concerning La Barre will also be found in M. de Laborde’s Comptes des Bâtiments du Roi au XVIeme Siècle .
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

du Roi au XVIème
In M. de Laborde’s Comptes des Bâtiments du Roi au XVIème Siècle (vol.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Day regarded as xi
339 sq. ; Midsummer Day regarded as, xi. 29 —— children passed through narrow openings, xi. 190 —— marriages in India, ii. 57 n. 4 Unmasking a were-wolf or witch by wounding him or her, x. 315, 321 Unmatjera tribe of Central Australia, their disposal of foreskins at circumcision, i. 95 sq. ; burial customs of the, i. 102; their charm to ensure wakefulness, i. 154; their contagious magic of footprints, i. 208; their rites of initiation, xi. 234; initiation of a medicine-man in the, xi. 238 Unna, in Westphalia, treatment of the last sheaf at, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

del Rey Alfonso XI
Lib. de la Mont. , for Biblioteca Venatoria de Gutierrez de la Vega, Libro de la Montería del Rey Alfonso XI.
— from The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by of Norwich Edward


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