If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

At Tebay however, he began to get the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.

[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]

Rury has given the word for some rare sport — a bout of games and masteries between me and Marcos Serkman to prove which is the better man.

Come, Paolo, we two have never held / A mastery between us — tell me out!

Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.

That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.

By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.

Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.

To accomplish this is a great mastery, a rare mastery: but it is an accomplishment that seems to have been Rowlandson's easily whenever he would.

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.

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