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... SKEAT . whereto the voyce came hote before the frost tooke it ) and the riuer was so thicke frozen , that it did well beare the fire . When they had thus done , the wordes that for space of an houre had bene frozen , began to thaw , and ...
... SKEAT . whereto the voyce came hote before the frost tooke it ) and the riuer was so thicke frozen , that it did well beare the fire . When they had thus done , the wordes that for space of an houre had bene frozen , began to thaw , and ...
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... SKEAT . ISLAND OF PROVIDENCE ( 9th S. xii . 428 ) .— There are two Providence Islands , about which there has been much confusion . One ( now called Old Providence Island ) lies east of the Mosquito Coast between 13 ° and 14o N ...
... SKEAT . ISLAND OF PROVIDENCE ( 9th S. xii . 428 ) .— There are two Providence Islands , about which there has been much confusion . One ( now called Old Providence Island ) lies east of the Mosquito Coast between 13 ° and 14o N ...
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... SKEAT connects Gothic Dutch hop ( A Maso - Gothic Glossary , ' Lon- hwōpan - to boast with English whoop_and don , 1868 ) . This strengthens the tendency to take boast for a derivative of vox . The word for boust in Romans xi . 18 , 1 ...
... SKEAT connects Gothic Dutch hop ( A Maso - Gothic Glossary , ' Lon- hwōpan - to boast with English whoop_and don , 1868 ) . This strengthens the tendency to take boast for a derivative of vox . The word for boust in Romans xi . 18 , 1 ...
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... Skeat , ' Chaucer's Works , ' i . xlvii , for 1400 is clearly the date mortis of the poet , and not his vita . Commaunder has also the two Latin lines by Surigonius of Milan : — " Carmina Epitaphica magistri Hickeman , Audi- toris ...
... Skeat , ' Chaucer's Works , ' i . xlvii , for 1400 is clearly the date mortis of the poet , and not his vita . Commaunder has also the two Latin lines by Surigonius of Milan : — " Carmina Epitaphica magistri Hickeman , Audi- toris ...
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... Skeat ( Etymol . Dict . ' ) is explained as season , time , hour , flux or reflux of the sea . " The suffix well forms a portion of many of the names of places in Derbyshire , and it is very probable that the term denoted some spring or ...
... Skeat ( Etymol . Dict . ' ) is explained as season , time , hour , flux or reflux of the sea . " The suffix well forms a portion of many of the names of places in Derbyshire , and it is very probable that the term denoted some spring or ...
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