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"text": "1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume III, p. 226,\n[…] who would not chuse […] to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain […] ?"
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"text": "1724-5, Jonathan Swift, “A Receipt. To Restore Stella’s Youth” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, 1841, Volume 1, p. 687,\nMeagre and lank with fasting grown,\nAnd nothing left but skin and bone;"
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"text": "1659, Samuel Cradock, Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation, London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495,\nWe should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver."
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"text": "1695, John Stevens (translator), The Portugues Asia; or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues, by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, London: C. Brome, Chapter 10, p. 291,\nThe Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]"
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"ref": "1940, Hugh Walpole, The Bright Pavilions, London: Macmillan, Part I",
"text": "He was an exceedingly thin old man. Down from his head to his shoulders hung long, yellow, lank locks and within this enclosure was an old bony face, the forehead seamed with a thousand wrinkles.",
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"(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)"
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"ref": "1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 833–837",
"text": "The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played,\nHeld up their pearled wrists, and took her in,\nBearing her straight to aged Nereus’ hall;\nWho, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head,\nAnd gave her to his daughters to imbathe […]",
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"ref": "1655, William Spurstowe, chapter 18, in The Wels of Salvation Opened, London: Ralph Smith, pages 249–250",
"text": "Let us weigh the promises of the one and of the other in the balance of truth, and we shall finde that the promises of God are gold, and the promises of the devil are Alchimy, such which though they glitter much, have no worth or excellency in them. […] God’s, are substantial realities, and his, vanishing and fleeting shadows windy and swollen bladders, which but a little prickt, do quickly fall and grow lank.",
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"text": "1659, Samuel Cradock, Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation, London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495,\nWe should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver."
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"ref": "1940, Hugh Walpole, The Bright Pavilions, London: Macmillan, Part I",
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"ref": "1655, William Spurstowe, chapter 18, in The Wels of Salvation Opened, London: Ralph Smith, pages 249–250",
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"sense": "slender and thin",
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"word": "права"
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