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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… they have occasioned. Though the walks of conspirators are sly and secret, we will set down part of them. Having tried …
Survey of London
… acquired Henley's share in the estate, and John Sly, a haberdasher, 14 who acted as trustee for the syndicate …
Old and New London
… of the bedchamber and captains of the guards, to sing sly verses with a sly expression, or to put on a page's dress for a frolic, was …
Old and New London
… Duke of Clarence. The latter liked nothing better than a sly cut at that department, and especially at Croker himself, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… father will be very angry, and perhaps he deserves it (the sly dog), but he is very sorry (and won't do so again, etc), …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Read a letter from Lord Godolphin, enclosing one from Mr. Sly, who came home with the Virginia fleet, and sends … Nicholson. Resolved that the Lords would speak with Mr. Sly, when he came to town, and, as they saw occasion, they …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… the bags were to be made up, he brought his letters in a sly manner, and slipped them into the " packs," then tied and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fearing that it would halve employment and viewing it 'as sly as a cow at a bastard calf', though in 1838 John Early …