The Table Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merrymakings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-day Book Year Book ... Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Volumes 1-2W. Tegg and Company, 1828 - Amusements |
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Page 473
... means the keeper of the place ; it is compounded of the two old words , stede and ward : by the omission of the first d and e the word steward is formed . Marshal means one who has the care of horses : in the old Teutonic , mare was ...
... means the keeper of the place ; it is compounded of the two old words , stede and ward : by the omission of the first d and e the word steward is formed . Marshal means one who has the care of horses : in the old Teutonic , mare was ...
Page 75
... means of verifying ; for , as it is quaintly said , he had his decoying as well as his decaying gentlemen . Audley was a philosophical usurer : he never pressed hard for his debts ; like the owler , he never shook his nets lest he might ...
... means of verifying ; for , as it is quaintly said , he had his decoying as well as his decaying gentlemen . Audley was a philosophical usurer : he never pressed hard for his debts ; like the owler , he never shook his nets lest he might ...
Page 93
... means calcu- lated to keep out the rain or cold during the inclement season . The cells are small , being only twelve feet by eight feet , and having no fire - place or other means of being warmed . The said cells are merely brick ...
... means calcu- lated to keep out the rain or cold during the inclement season . The cells are small , being only twelve feet by eight feet , and having no fire - place or other means of being warmed . The said cells are merely brick ...
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