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Search phrase: fasting

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As You Like ItAYL III.v.58And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love!And thanke heauen, fasting, for a good mans loue;
CymbelineCym III.vii.63Discourse is heavy, fasting: when we have suppedDiscourse is heauy, fasting: when we haue supp'd
Henry VH5 IV.ii.56And give their fasting horses provender,And giue their fasting Horses Prouender,
King JohnKJ III.i.260A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,A fasting Tyger safer by the tooth,
Love's Labour's LostLLL IV.iii.120That shall express my true love's fasting pain.That shall expresse my true-loues fasting paine.
Measure for MeasureMM II.ii.154From fasting maids whose minds are dedicateFrom fasting Maides, whose mindes are dedicate
OthelloOth III.iv.40A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,A sequester from Liberty: Fasting, and Prayer,
Richard IIR2 II.i.81And therein fasting hast thou made me gaunt.And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:
Troilus and CressidaTC I.ii.35whereof hath ever since kept Hector fasting andwhereof, hath euer since kept Hector fasting and
Troilus and CressidaTC III.iii.137While pride is fasting in his wantonness!While pride is feasting in his wantonnesse
The Two Gentlemen of VeronaTG III.i.315Item: She is not to be kissed fasting, in respect of herItem, shee is not to be fasting in respect of her
The Winter's TaleWT III.ii.209Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,Ten thousand yeares together, naked, fasting,
The Winter's TaleWT IV.iv.597from fasting. They throng who should buy first, as if myfrom fasting: they throng who should buy first, as if my

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ember-eveevening before ember-days [church quarterly 3-day period of fasting and prayer]
fastfasting, hunger
fastingcaused by abstinence, hunger-induced
tub-fastfasting while being treated for venereal disease in a sweating-tub

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fastingfast
fasting while in a sweating-tubtub-fast
sweating tub, fasting while in atub-fast
tub, fasting while in a sweatingtub-fast

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