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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… not knowing how to send them. Hears nothing about the Dainty Kate. Has again written to Buckingham about his …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… a Madam Harvell, a kindred, she says, to Goring House, a dainty child, and of your acquaintance, as she tells us. [2 …
Old and New London
… of the lines of the old nursery rhyme: "Now was not that a dainty dish To set before a king?" Among the residents of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… vigour is the very foil that is needed to emphasise the dainty grace of the architectural work in which it is set. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Persia
… for an hospital, that behind the house was a fair field, a dainty row of elms, and a private garden wherein a chapel …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI
… come with them. He cries to Hales to sell land; leather is dainty, no meat for poor Ambassadors. Thinks Wotton will one …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… shades of meaning; in the one it was a term of reproach, 'dainty, fastidious, foppish', but in the other it expressed …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… or contempt of our commandments, we will never make dainty to set on such shadows as shall quickly eclipse any of …