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... called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was cured in the year 1758 of an inveterate ...
... called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was cured in the year 1758 of an inveterate ...
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... called lambs ' - wool , and the night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the twelfth eve ) was commonly called Wassil eve . " The glossary to the Ex- more dialect has “ Watsail - a drinking song on twelfth - day eve ...
... called lambs ' - wool , and the night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the twelfth eve ) was commonly called Wassil eve . " The glossary to the Ex- more dialect has “ Watsail - a drinking song on twelfth - day eve ...
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... called herbaceous , " Their calm desires that asked but little which die down to the root every autum are now safely concealed under - ground , preparing their new shoots to burst forth THE SEASON . room , " were unheeded , and their ...
... called herbaceous , " Their calm desires that asked but little which die down to the root every autum are now safely concealed under - ground , preparing their new shoots to burst forth THE SEASON . room , " were unheeded , and their ...
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... called Plough Monday , and appears to have received that name because it was the first day after Christmas that hus- bandmen resumed the plough . In some parts of the country , and especially in the north , they draw the plough in ...
... called Plough Monday , and appears to have received that name because it was the first day after Christmas that hus- bandmen resumed the plough . In some parts of the country , and especially in the north , they draw the plough in ...
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... called dies in banco , ( days in bank , ) that is , days of appearance in the court of common bench . They are usually about a week from each other , and have refer- ence to some Romish festival . All ori- ginal writs are returnable on ...
... called dies in banco , ( days in bank , ) that is , days of appearance in the court of common bench . They are usually about a week from each other , and have refer- ence to some Romish festival . All ori- ginal writs are returnable on ...
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Page 360 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 403 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 700 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ;. We few, we happy few. we band of brothers : For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother...
Page 403 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 403 - The foe! They come! They come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills...
Page 16 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 70 - The blisses of her dream so pure and deep At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep; Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look'd so dreamingly. XXXV "Ah, Porphyro!
Page 821 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Page 821 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning.
Page 609 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-braud.