 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...our Mag-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annct, which the people of Lancashire call by no other Dame than a tree Goose : which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence. For die truth hereof, if any doubt, may... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...in such a manner as is our magpie, called in some place* a pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose : which place aforesaid, and those part« adjoyning do so much abound therewith, that one of the but it bought for threepence. For... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 332 pages
...space after, \t cometh to maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and eth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, lesser than a goose,...nonsense in my life," said Harry. " 'For the truth whei-eof, if any doubt,'" continued Lucy, reading, " 'may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...such manner at ь our mag-pie, called in some places a pie-annet, whk-h ti • people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose; which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoin;: .-. do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bov.L-'M for three pence. For the... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Mollusks - 1835 - 234 pages
...in such a manner as is onr Magpie, called in some places a Pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a Tree Goose; which place aforesaid, and those parta adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence.... | |
 | Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 334 pages
...Mallard, and lesser than a Goose, which the people in Lancashire call by no other name than a Tree-Goose; which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three-pence."' So fully convinced was the sage Gerard... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1836 - 394 pages
...people of — ' " Lucy put her finger over the place, " ' Call by no other name than a tree-goose , which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining,...the best is bought for threepence."' " I never heard sucn nonsense in my life," said Harry. " ' For the truth whereof, if any doubt,' " continued Lucy,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 794 pages
...in such a manner as our magpie ; called in some places a pie-annet ; which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose ; which place aforesaid, and the parts adjoining, do much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three halfpence.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...mallard and lesser than a goose, which the people in Lancashire call by no other name than a tree-goose ; which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence." The delusion has also operated successfully... | |
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Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may... 
