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" Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do. During which time there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it ; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped... "
Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More ... - Page 236
1901 - 317 pages
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The Oxford Treasury of English Literature...: Old English to Jacobean

Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1906 - 376 pages
...close to the shore and offered to land. But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons 2 in their hands, as it were forbidding us to land:...eight persons in it, whereof one of them had in his 1 ' View ' (cf. ' within our ken '). 2 ' Staves ' (see n. 2, p. 331). hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane,...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...fierceness, but only as warning us off by signs that they made. Whereupon, being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do....a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number present...
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Volume 3

Otto Jespersen - 1927 - 438 pages
...721 the shyp wherein Percyual had putte his syster in. In a different way Bacon A 2.20 a small boate, with about eight persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaffe (the adv. here refers to persons). 1O.64. The w/iere-adverbs may introduce a continuative...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 pages
...fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted,' we were advising with ourselves, what we should do....a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number, present...
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Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English ...

John Michael Archer - 1993 - 230 pages
...Bensalem is really quite familiar to them, and to the reader. Among all the gestures and "signs," we have "a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue," a robe with wide sleeves, and the supreme sign of the Cross (3. 130, 131). The scroll the voyagers...
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The Real History of the Rosicrucians

Edward Wait - 1996 - 320 pages
...whereupon, being not a little discomf itted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do, during which there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it, whereof one had in his hand a tipstaff of yellow cane, tipped at both ends with green, who came aboard without...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...warning us off by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were discussing with ourselves what we should do, during which time...to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it. One of them who had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, came aboard...
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Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Margaret Cavendish - 2000 - 340 pages
...made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted, wee were advising with our selves, what we should doe. During which time, there made forth to us a small...Persons in it; whereof One of them had in his Hand a Tipstaffe of a yellow Cane, tipped at both ends with Blew, who came aboord our Shipp, without any shew...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...warning us off by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted,0 we were advising0 with ourselves what we should do. During which time...persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff0 of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue,0 who came aboard our ship, without any show...
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The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 2006 - 90 pages
...fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves, what we should do....a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number, present...
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