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sailesails

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
981 times in 491 works
Consistency
95.5% (981 of 1,027)
Reach if approved
~1,090 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: sail
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,037 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
10 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (981 changes in 491 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 981)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and ſell with conſcience, that hath not accounted with himſelfe to carry a low ſailesails, and lower then he hath done, (if God ſee it ſo good.) Wee ſhoulde …
    With rule
    … and ſell with conſcience, that hath not accounted with himſelfe to carry a low ſailesails, and lower then he hath done, (if God ſee it ſo good.) Wee ſhoulde …

    John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … from mariage: as our Sauiour Christ also did. Let them which haue this gift sailesails on with their owne winde and keepe the course appoynted vnto them of God …
    With rule
    … from mariage: as our Sauiour Christ also did. Let them which haue this gift sailesails on with their owne winde and keepe the course appoynted vnto them of God …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 196 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … aduanceth it selfe, perpetually they are the more barren. Hee liues at a high sailesails, that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland …
    With rule
    … aduanceth it selfe, perpetually they are the more barren. Hee liues at a high sailesails, that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Strike sailesails, and to thy matter draw more neare,
    With rule
    Strike sailesails, and to thy matter draw more neare,

    Thomas Fuller · Davids Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Yee Mariners know what it is to have a reſolved mind and purpoſe to ſailesails to your intended place: yee paſſe through all weathers: no gathering of clouds, no …
    With rule
    … Yee Mariners know what it is to have a reſolved mind and purpoſe to ſailesails to your intended place: yee paſſe through all weathers: no gathering of clouds, no …

    William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Christ hath purchased by his blood; they will followe whether they draw them, and sailesails as they blow in their sailes, till on the pernitious rockes of fearefull destruction …
    With rule
    … Christ hath purchased by his blood; they will followe whether they draw them, and sailesails as they blow in their sailes, till on the pernitious rockes of fearefull destruction …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hath full ſailesails, it goeth very ſwiftly: So ſaith the Apoſtle, doe not ſtrike ſailesails, doe not freely expreſſe your ſelves in familiarity with him, but withdraw your ſelves …
    With rule
    … hath full ſailesails, it goeth very ſwiftly: So ſaith the Apoſtle, doe not ſtrike ſailesails, doe not freely expreſſe your ſelves in familiarity with him, but withdraw your ſelves …

    Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not ſomewhat troubled, but quite vndone: or they are caried, as with the maine ſailesails into doubtfull ſeas; and runne from the Creator to creatures, fixing all their ſenſes …
    With rule
    … not ſomewhat troubled, but quite vndone: or they are caried, as with the maine ſailesails into doubtfull ſeas; and runne from the Creator to creatures, fixing all their ſenſes …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 25 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sicelides a Piscatory A00979

  • Printed
    SaileSails ther's your office Scrocca, you must goe:
    With rule
    SaileSails ther's your office Scrocca, you must goe:

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SaileSails home by land quotha? well, I'le haue that saddle boate hung vp for a …
    With rule
    SaileSails home by land quotha? well, I'le haue that saddle boate hung vp for a …

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

The Pathway to Prayer and Piety A03356

  • Printed
    Chryſostome ſaid, The World is a Sea, the Church a Ship, the SaileSails Repentance, the Rudder the Croſſe, the Pilot Chriſt, and the Holy Ghoſt the Windes.
    With rule
    Chryſostome ſaid, The World is a Sea, the Church a Ship, the SaileSails Repentance, the Rudder the Croſſe, the Pilot Chriſt, and the Holy Ghoſt the Windes.

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 215 · Open in the reader

Saint Pauls Triumph A10394

  • Printed
    … Gods Spirit, as with winde and tyde, and with full aſſurance, as with full SaileSails, euermore reſting vpon the promiſes and mercies of God in Ieſus Chriſt, and being …
    With rule
    … Gods Spirit, as with winde and tyde, and with full aſſurance, as with full SaileSails, euermore reſting vpon the promiſes and mercies of God in Ieſus Chriſt, and being …

    John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 108 · Open in the reader

A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor A28624

  • Printed
    … God. It is a Metaphor taken from a Sayle filled with wind: if the SaileSails have no winde, the Ship ſtands ſtill and is becalmed: but if the wind …
    With rule
    … God. It is a Metaphor taken from a Sayle filled with wind: if the SaileSails have no winde, the Ship ſtands ſtill and is becalmed: but if the wind …

    Samuel Bolton · A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor · p. 8 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

  • Printed
    … there taken homage of his Subjects, and set all things in order, he set SaileSails and arrived in England, above a yeare after the death of his Father: a …
    With rule
    … there taken homage of his Subjects, and set all things in order, he set SaileSails and arrived in England, above a yeare after the death of his Father: a …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Banners, seven hundred men at Armes, and a Navy of three hundred and sixty SaileSails. In the meane time the King of France, having had intelligence of the intended …
    With rule
    … Banners, seven hundred men at Armes, and a Navy of three hundred and sixty SaileSails. In the meane time the King of France, having had intelligence of the intended …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Earle of Warwicke, and the Lords Reynold, Grey, and Clifford; with five hundred SaileSails, and eighteene thousand men at Armes, he passeth over into France, but finding the …
    With rule
    … the Earle of Warwicke, and the Lords Reynold, Grey, and Clifford; with five hundred SaileSails, and eighteene thousand men at Armes, he passeth over into France, but finding the …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … great number of Welshmen; and in Iune following he sets forth with three hundred SaileSails, attended with the Earles of Warwick…, Suffolke, Salisbury, and Oxford, the Lord Chand…s …
    With rule
    … great number of Welshmen; and in Iune following he sets forth with three hundred SaileSails, attended with the Earles of Warwick…, Suffolke, Salisbury, and Oxford, the Lord Chand…s …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 166 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … March, Oxford, Huntington, Warwick, Arundell, Salisbury, De… shire, and divers others, with two hundred SaileSails, to the rescue of Harflew; who upon the Feast of the Assumption of our …
    With rule
    … March, Oxford, Huntington, Warwick, Arundell, Salisbury, De… shire, and divers others, with two hundred SaileSails, to the rescue of Harflew; who upon the Feast of the Assumption of our …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 50 · Open in the reader

The Life and Death of Pompey the Great A33324

  • Printed
    … Victuals, Ammunition, Money, Engines for Battery, and all other his Warlike provision, he hoised SaileSails, and landed one part of his Army at V…i…a, and the other …
    With rule
    … Victuals, Ammunition, Money, Engines for Battery, and all other his Warlike provision, he hoised SaileSails, and landed one part of his Army at V…i…a, and the other …

    Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Pompey the Great · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … out of the Treasury to defray the charges of a Fleet of two hundred SaileSails, with full power besides to leavy what men of War he thought good, and …
    With rule
    … out of the Treasury to defray the charges of a Fleet of two hundred SaileSails, with full power besides to leavy what men of War he thought good, and …

    Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Pompey the Great · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Good Thoughts in Bad Times A40662

  • Printed
    … Spirituall Merchandize never come more into this Island, But rather sinck in Tiber, then SaileSails thus farre, bringing so small Good, and so great Annoyance. Sure he is not …
    With rule
    … Spirituall Merchandize never come more into this Island, But rather sinck in Tiber, then SaileSails thus farre, bringing so small Good, and so great Annoyance. Sure he is not …

    Thomas Fuller · Good Thoughts in Bad Times · p. 154 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

  • Printed
    Half flying; behoves him now both Oare and SaileSails.
    With rule
    Half flying; behoves him now both Oare and SaileSails.

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her SaileSails;
    With rule
    Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her SaileSails;

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

The Trial and Triumph of Faith A57982

  • Printed
    … beyond us, and beside us, but wee see little of God in them. We SaileSails, but we see not shoar, we fight, but we have no Victory, the efficacy …
    With rule
    … beyond us, and beside us, but wee see little of God in them. We SaileSails, but we see not shoar, we fight, but we have no Victory, the efficacy …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the shore to cry to those tossed in the sea between death and life, SaileSails thus and thus; its nothing to speak good words to the sick, yet Angels …
    With rule
    … the shore to cry to those tossed in the sea between death and life, SaileSails thus and thus; its nothing to speak good words to the sick, yet Angels …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · p. 119 · Open in the reader

The Nonsuch Professor in his Meridian Splendor A74686

  • Printed
    A great ſhooe fits not a ſmall foot, nor a large SaileSails a little Boat; the ſubject is fitter for a Chriſtian to live upon, then …
    With rule
    A great ſhooe fits not a ſmall foot, nor a large SaileSails a little Boat; the ſubject is fitter for a Chriſtian to live upon, then …

    William Secker · The Nonsuch Professor in his Meridian Splendor · Open in the reader

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America A77237

  • Printed
    Depriv'd ar once, the uſe of SaileSails, and Oare;
    With rule
    Depriv'd ar once, the uſe of SaileSails, and Oare;

    Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 142 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

  • Printed
    Lord, let us ever SaileSails in this ſweete Sea,
    With rule
    Lord, let us ever SaileSails in this ſweete Sea,

    William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SaileSails, paſſe in ſafety, without wrecke, bruiſe, loſſe,
    With rule
    SaileSails, paſſe in ſafety, without wrecke, bruiſe, loſſe,

    William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 101 · Open in the reader