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Louise Bernice Halfe, is a Cree poet and
social worker from Canada.
Halfe's Cree name is Sky Dancer. At the age of seven, she was
forced to
attend Blue...
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Arcadia in 1590: "In
singing some
short coplets,
whereto the one
halfe beginning, the
other halfe should answere."
While couplets traditionally rhyme, not all...
- be
reasonably fine, put to them
halfe a
pound of fine
beaten Sugar, and so beat it to a
perfect Paste, then put in
halfe a
dozen spoonefuls of good Damaske...
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young sun the
tender plants, as the
springtime sun Hath in the Ram his
halfe cours yronne, Has in the Ram his half-course run, p****es
halfway through...
- wings, so
small and impotent, that they
serve only to
prove her bird. The
halfe of her head is
naked seeming couered with a fine vaile, her bill is crooked...
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connections with
sheep are early; a fifteenth-century
ballad includes the lines: "
Halfe England ys
nowght now but
shepe // In
every corner they play boe-peep"....
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fryers and an
attendant went into the vessel, and
kneeling down pra****
halfe an houre, and layd
their hands on
every mast, and
other places of the vessel...
- Fletcher,
wrote about meeting very tall Patagonians, of "7
foote and a
halfe". In the 1590s,
Anthony Knivet claimed he had seen dead
bodies 12 feet (3...
- that "b
sharpe doeth holde up the tune
halfe a note higher, and b flatte,
contrarywise doeth lette it fall
halfe a note lower". But as
early as 1524, theorists...
- the
newly available citrus fruits: Take a
showlder of
mutton and
being halfe Roasted, Cut it in
great slices and save the
gravie then take
Clarret wine...
