Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that CountyJ. Loder, 1823 - 525 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα viii
... origin , this seeming anomaly may be accounted for . Whatever may have been the original language of England - or rather , what it was before the com- plete conquest of the country by the Saxons - it be- came in the course of time ...
... origin , this seeming anomaly may be accounted for . Whatever may have been the original language of England - or rather , what it was before the com- plete conquest of the country by the Saxons - it be- came in the course of time ...
Σελίδα 11
... origin . * BABBING . Catching crabs by drawing them to the surface of the water by a string baited with the innards of a chicken , or a piece of kit , & c . and let down close to their holes in the muddy sides of a river , creek , & c ...
... origin . * BABBING . Catching crabs by drawing them to the surface of the water by a string baited with the innards of a chicken , or a piece of kit , & c . and let down close to their holes in the muddy sides of a river , creek , & c ...
Σελίδα 15
... have no clue to its origin without going to a pedantic distance ; but will venture just to notice that in " the ancient language of India , it means a " swine , as it does also in some modern 2 15 BARLEY-BIRD. The nightingale. ...
... have no clue to its origin without going to a pedantic distance ; but will venture just to notice that in " the ancient language of India , it means a " swine , as it does also in some modern 2 15 BARLEY-BIRD. The nightingale. ...
Σελίδα 22
... . I introduce this word merely for the purpose of introducing the following quotation from Nares ' Glossary . Three blue beans in a blue bladder . What is the origin of this whimsical combination of words , it may not be easy to discover ...
... . I introduce this word merely for the purpose of introducing the following quotation from Nares ' Glossary . Three blue beans in a blue bladder . What is the origin of this whimsical combination of words , it may not be easy to discover ...
Σελίδα 71
... origin of the name of this game- which , however , he calls Scratch - Cradle . " But it clearly , " he says " meant originally the Cratch - cradle ; the manger that held the Holy Infant as a cradle . " I cannot say that this is clear to ...
... origin of the name of this game- which , however , he calls Scratch - Cradle . " But it clearly , " he says " meant originally the Cratch - cradle ; the manger that held the Holy Infant as a cradle . " I cannot say that this is clear to ...
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AINT ANINND applied Bailey basket beat believe bird blow BUTES called Cheshire child Cocker common commonly corn COSTARD country words curious derived especially Essex explains farther flump French given Glossary GOOF grass Grose hare hassock Hawstead head Hence Hengrave Hall horse Icelandic Jameison land Macbeth meaning milk mode Nares adds Nares gives Nares says Nares shows nearly never heard Norf Norfolk north country north country word noticed Nunch old word Othello passage pease perhaps PERK phrase piece plough poonch pretty probably pronounced proverb quotation quotes recollect referred rhyme Saxon Scotch Scotland Scottish seems Shakespeare sheep Shuckled SKEWBALD snaggy sometimes sort sound spelled Spenser straw strike Suffolk sense Suffolk word suppose term thing thou timber tion tree Tusser verb verse wheat whelk wood word occurs YANGLE yeow young
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Σελίδα 336 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Σελίδα 403 - I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...
Σελίδα 427 - The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill Tita.
Σελίδα 488 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Σελίδα 486 - Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
Σελίδα 336 - And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare : so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Σελίδα 347 - But I wadna consent to stain my hand with blood. — Then she said, By the religion of our holy Church they are ower sibb thegither. But I expect nothing but that both will become heretics as well as disobedient reprobates;' — that was her addition to that argument. And then, as the fiend is ever ower busy wi...
Σελίδα 261 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Σελίδα 4 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i