mure

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From Time Magazine Archive

And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

They are brought into a cavern, the entrance to which Roger is ordered to mure up.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

Catus cum mure, duo galli simul in aede, Et glotes binae nunquam vivunt sine lite.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir