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jumped overboard one night and swam
"I jumped overboard one night and swam ashore when we were anchored off the Kushite coast.
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

juyce of oranges nutmeg and some
Being boil’d, take the meat out of the shells, as also out of the great claws, cut it into dice-work, & put both the 411 png440 meats into a pipkin, together with some white wine, juyce of oranges, nutmeg, and some slices of oranges, stew it two or three warms on the fire, and the shells being finely cleansed and dried, put the meat into them, and lay the legs round about them in a clean dish.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

judges of our nation also Sir
'Conjuration' (an author approved by the twelve judges of our nation): also, Sir Matthew Hale's Trials of Witches, printed anno 1682; Glanvill's Collection of Sundry Trials in England and Ireland in the years 1658, '61, '63, '64, and '81; Bernard's Guide to Jury-men; Baxter's and R.B., their histories about Witches, and their Discoveries; Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences relating to Witchcraft, printed 1685."
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham


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