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 1     I|       doubt. For they dread the staff with which they have been
 2     I|       not drink it; Moses put a staff in the water, and suddenly
 3     I|        flee, for they dread the staff of which they have been
 4     I|         to thy servant, with my staff I have gone this river of
 5     I|       redeemer. ~bourdon, n., a staff. ~can, v., to be able. cheer,
 6    II|       away and sent from us the staff of our old age, would God
 7    II|      The light of our eyes, the staff of our age, the solace of
 8    II|      brought with him an hollow staff, in which he had put the
 9    II|     gold, and he leant upon the staff. And when he should make
10    II|         swear, he delivered his staff to the Jew to keep and hold
11    II|       the oath, he demanded his staff again of the Jew, and he
12    II|         slew him, and brake the staff with gold that it spread
13    II|         sight only, and pight a staff in the middle of the isle
14    II|         liberty to come to that staff and not to pass farther,
15    II|         were the sustenance and staff of mine old age, sweetly
16    II|       angel following bearing a staff whom he bade smite and slay,
17   III|        end of the crook, or his staff, upon the king's foot, and
18   III|         a great circle with his staff, and anon the earth after
19   III|       is that he drove with his staff all the venomous beasts
20   III|      happed that he went with a staff begging his bread, and in
21   III|         company took a fuller's staff and smote him on the head,
22   III|         then S. Austin took his staff for to remove from that
23   III|         place, and suddenly his staff sprang out of his hand with
24   III|      when S. Austin came to his staff and pulled it out of the
25   III|     wrote in the earth with his staff beside the well these words
26   III|        S. Austin wrote with his staff by the well, and yet unto
27   III|        these words he fixed his staff into the ground, and a well
28   III|          needs. ~bourdon, n., a staff. ~brochets, n., spikes. ~
29    IV|        S. Peter gave to him his staff and commanded that he should
30    IV|     kept sheep took it with his staff, and set it up by the place
31    IV|        S. James gave to him his staff. Then he went and brought
32    IV|        in his hand instead of a staff, by which he sustained him
33    IV|         shoulders, and took his staff, and entered into the river
34    IV|        to be the truth, set thy staff in the earth by thy house,
35    IV|        then Christopher set his staff in the earth, and when he
36    IV|       on the morn, he found his staff like a palmier bearing flowers,
37    IV|      that Peter gave to him the staff first, and S. Paul delivered
38    IV|      Donatus smote him with his staff, or as some say he spit
39    IV|    bridge to them that fleet, a staff to the feeble, a ladder
40     V|       shoulder, and a pilgrim's staff in his right hand, and so
41     V|          And he said: Take this staff which is mine, and lay it
42     V|      his prayer to God; and his staff flourished and brought forth
43     V|         was there, and bare his staff in his hand, and went out
44     V|   appeared to him with a little staff that he held, which had
45    VI|      And with that he fixed his staff into the hard stone of his
46    VI|  received his cross or pastoral staff, and held it so fast that
47    VI|       would have pulled out the staff, but they could not move
48    VI|       fetch to him the pastoral staff, but when he came he set
49    VI|     assayed and set hand on the staff for to have pulled it out,
50    VI|   Edward, and receive again thy staff which he hath denied to
51    VI|       unto the tomb whereas the staff stood fast fixed in the
52    VI| chargedst me unworthy with this staff. If it so please thee that
53    VI|       to me again this pastoral staff, and if it please to thee
54    VI|     with great reverence on the staff, and anon the hard stone
55    VI|     stone resolved, and let the staff to go out, as it had been
56    VI|        ears and leaned upon his staff. Then the bishop put himself
57   VII|    abbots with the ring and the staff pastoral. In that time Bernard
58   VII|     made his prayer he drew his staff over the earth. Now may
59   VII|     holy hermit Fiacre drew his staff, the trees fell down both
60   VII|         about where he drew his staff was a ditch suddenly made.
61   VII|   meanwhile that he drew so his staff, there came a woman which
62   VII|      touching of the holy man's staff, and with great haste she
63   VII|    earth only by fraying of his staff was ditched about, as of
64   VII|        angel that took to him a staff pastoral, saying in this
65   VII|      manner: Mellonin take this staff, under the which thou shalt
66   VII|      came, and he held the said staff in his hand, he met with
67   VII|       as they had hanged upon a staff. And the holy man which