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  • Thumbnail for Arthur Quiller-Couch
    Town (1888) The Splendid Spur (1889) The Blue Pavilions (1891) The Delectable Duchy: Stories, Studies and Sketches (1893) I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter's...
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  • Thumbnail for Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
    in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques...
    8 KB (760 words) - 00:12, 12 June 2024
  • They sang 'popular ditties' and performed a mummer's play. In The Delectable Duchy 'Q' (the writer Arthur Quiller-Couch) tells of mummers, guise-dancers...
    9 KB (1,249 words) - 07:16, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Rouen
    to ape Pompey's third triumph of 61 BC at Rome: "No less pleasing and delectable than the third triumph of Pompey... magnificent in riches and abounding...
    17 KB (2,292 words) - 19:08, 16 November 2024
  • déjà vu deject dejection delay, Old Fr. deslaier, compare Mod. Fr. délai delectable delectation delegate deliberation deliberative delicious delight delimit...
    75 KB (3,682 words) - 17:16, 20 March 2024
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    quicksands, rocks, flattes, shelues and shoares. A work very necessary and delectable for students of geographie, saylers, and others. First vvritten in Greeke...
    93 KB (10,020 words) - 22:06, 18 November 2024
  • forward, only to fall back while keeping "our eyes fixed on the far-off, delectable mountains of peace and good will" as took from the book the motto "Whatever...
    126 KB (5,086 words) - 01:30, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert (archbishop of Trier)
    Ecclesiae (History of the Church of Reims) to "the venerable lord and delectable illustrious prelate, R., beloved in Christ" (Domino venerabili et in Christi...
    17 KB (2,226 words) - 14:54, 24 February 2024
  • John Caius (fl. 1480), an English poet, also known as John Kay. The Delectable Newwesse and Tithynges of the Glorious Victory of the Rhodyans against...
    353 KB (41,107 words) - 18:13, 19 June 2024