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Nares , in his ' Glossary , ' says that this is " an old boy's game , " and quotes a stanza from the Common Cries of London ' in which it is associated with nine - holes and cat . It is mentioned in an old play , ' Apollo Shroving ...
Nares , in his ' Glossary , ' says that this is " an old boy's game , " and quotes a stanza from the Common Cries of London ' in which it is associated with nine - holes and cat . It is mentioned in an old play , ' Apollo Shroving ...
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66 I altogether disagree with Dr. Murray , thereBut Dr. Murray's chief difficulty seems to have fore , when he says that couvade , in this technical been that in dictionaries of Middle French , such sense , should be regarded " simply ...
66 I altogether disagree with Dr. Murray , thereBut Dr. Murray's chief difficulty seems to have fore , when he says that couvade , in this technical been that in dictionaries of Middle French , such sense , should be regarded " simply ...
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swapping " or huge " ale - dagger with two or three It was demolished in 1685 , upon the revocation of pounds of iron in the hilt " is , he says , " doubtless the Edict of Nantes . The entry in the register in such an instrument as ...
swapping " or huge " ale - dagger with two or three It was demolished in 1685 , upon the revocation of pounds of iron in the hilt " is , he says , " doubtless the Edict of Nantes . The entry in the register in such an instrument as ...
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