To my well beloved wyf Elyzabeth Crumwell agenst the Freyers Augustines in London be this given.
Terible 3 has ennything agenst she must taik her chanct but she wont be hirt if she keeps her fingers out of the pye.
Pewt and Beany if they dident want their fathers to be maid onery members and they sed no, that their fathers had licked them for nothing the nite we roten eged the pedler and they wood voat agenst it.
He will be a wylde man/ and his hande will be agenst every man/ & euery mans hande agenst him.
And he toke all these and devyded them in the myddes/ and layde euery pece/ one over agenst a nother.
But the men of sodome were wyked and synned exceadyngly agenst the LORde.
And therfore I kepte y^e that thou shuldest not synne agenst me/ nether suffred I the to come nygh her.
Blake who sets rite behind us droped his hym book and had to bend way over to pick it up when he set up he hit his bald head a feerful bump agenst the book rack.
Pricilla sung pulling hard agenst the streem and played the organ.
The Captin just leaned agenst his horse smokin a cigar as tho that was the best place in the world to spend the evenin.
Some is upside down, some lap over each other, some is leanin agenst the sides of the trench an in the deep places some isnt there at all.
Whoever grooms those things will have to lean them up agenst something.
I expect to be sittin propped up agenst the wall some day in the Old Soldiers Home an about six postmen will come staggerin in the gate with my mail.
If the worst come to worst tell your father I didnt bear no grudge agenst him.
It was intended, on the surface at least, as an open and emfatic protest agenst the too lavish praise of the plates in the journals.
The general tone, then, is polemic tho directed agenst no particular person or article.
An' the fact that they is women is agenst 'em most of all.
I wou'd be ye laste of men to sett my orthoritty agensther enclinashun.
Butt theire are times whenn my harte is sore and heavy; and the rane beeting agenst the winder semes lik dropps of cold worter falling uponn my pore aking harte.
The defence of John Hales agenst certyn sclaundres and false reaportes made of hym" (Appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonweal of this Realm of England, p.
The defence of John Hales agenstcerteyn sclaundres and false reaportes made of hym.
Neuerthelesse the men assayed wyth rowenge to bringe the sheppe to lande: but it wold not be/ because the se so wrought & was so trowblous agenst them.
And the lorde ordeyned a worme agenst the springe of [the] morow mornīge which smote the wild vine/ that it wethered awaye.
His good warrfare agenst Satan and his malignant spirites; his good soldyer agenst the flesh, the lustes and concupiscences therof: And his complet harness agenst the worlde and the wickednes and wretchednes therof.
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