steeped

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And lastly the place, hauing a steepe cliffe adioyning, affordeth an oportunitie to the fact.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

No labour then was harsh, no way so deepe, No rocke so steepe, but if a bird could scale it, Up would our youth flie to.

From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Boas, Frederick S.

Then they steepe it first in sea water, washing it afterward with fresh water, and so it is made very good and sauorie paste, whereof they make either meat or bread, as they thinke good.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard

Flaundrische, Flemish. sothly, truly. flotynge, fluting, playing. souple, pliant. flour-de-lys, fleur-de-lis. sovereyn, excellent. forster, forester. sowning, boasting. for-pyned, much wasted. steepe, bright. frere, friar.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

A little to the Westwards from Killigarth, the poore harbour and village of Polpera coucheth betweene 2. steepe hils, where plenty of fish is vented to the fish driuers, whom we call Iowters.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard