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In the time came a company of indians to us, nearly thirty, all on horse-back. my heart skip within me, thinking they had been enlish men at first sight of them, for they were dressed in english apparel, with hats , white neckcloths , and sashes.
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Mary Rowlandson
the sovereignty and goodness of God 1682 |
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God allowed that among all the fleets that have gone to those lands no other found itself in such danger nor came to such a miserable and disastrous end. no service is left to me but to bring an account to your majesty.
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alvar nunez cabeza de vaca
chronicle of the narvaez expedition 1542 |
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In regard of the pleasure and content that the exercise of love carries with it as wee may see in the naturall body the mouth is at all pains to receive, and mince the foode which serves for the nourishment of all the other partes of the body, yet it hath noe cause to complaine
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john winthrop
a modell of christian charity 1630 |
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but sure the antique greeks were far more mild
else of our sed, why freigned they those nine and poesy made calliop's own child |
anne bradstreet
The prologue to her book 1650 |
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seeing this salvage but trifle the time to cut his throat, procured the salvages to breake the ice, that his boat might come to fetch his corn and him.
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john smith
the generall historie of virginia, new-england, and the summer isles. 1624 |
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but the savages though never nation used so kindly upon so small desert, have in stead of that harvest which our paines merited, returned nothing but bryers and thornes, pricking even to death many of their benefactors.
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edward waterhouse
a declaration of the state of the colony in virgnia 1622 |
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i have already said that we went naked in that land and not being accustomed to it we shed our skin twice a year, like snakes.
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alvar nunez cabeza de vaca
chronicle of the narvaez expedition. 1542 |
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about a mile we went that night, up upon a hill within sight of the town, where they intended to lodge. there was hard by a vacant house i asked them whither i might not lodge in the house that night.
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Mary Rowlandson
the sovereignty and goodness of God 1682 |
