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• Passing Fair - Passing Fair Admirably fair. (Dutch, passen, to admire.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. ...
• William Shakespeare: Henry VIII, Act V, Scene IV - You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.
• William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene I - Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.
• William Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene IV - When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three
• William Shakespeare: Love's Labor's Lost, Act IV, Scene III - The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in a pitch,—pitch that defiles: defile! a foul word. Wel