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Transactions, Volume 2 Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society Visualização de excertos - 1884 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
15 shillings acres of meadow acres of pasture acres of wood antennæ apothecia apothecium arable land basking shark bird Bustard carapace Castallack cells colour Cornish Cornwall Crustacea Ditto Domain Earl holds eight carucates feet ferling of land fish formerly forty acres four bond servants four borderers four carucates four villains half a ferling half a hide half a plough hide the arable hundred acres inches King Edward Lamorna land is eight land is four land is six land is three Lecidea Marazion mile broad miles long Millett Mount's-bay neighbourhood nevertheless observed Penzance piskies plant plough and half pounds R. Q. Couch rare RICHARD Q rocks Scilly shark six borderers six carucates sixty acres slender society species specimen spine stone surface taxed for half thirty acres three bond servants three borderers three carucates three ploughs three villains twenty acres virgate of land vulgaris worth 20 shillings Zennor
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Página 149 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 156 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 228 - Benedicamus domino:" why then, beware! look about you, my neighbors. If any of you have a sheep sick of the giddies, or a hog of the mumps, or a horse of the staggers, or a knavish boy of the school, or an idle girl of the wheel, or a young drab of the sullens, and hath not fat enough for her...
Página 191 - Three instances only of the appearance of the bustard in England have been noticed by Mr. Yarrell since the publication of the second edition of his
Página 155 - ... the proper way to lessen the obligation ; so he had a suit of green made of what he judged to be the proper size, and this he carried early in the evening to the barn, and left there for the pisky's acceptance. At night he stole to the barn-door, to see how the gift was taken. He was just in time to see the elf put on the suit, with which he was very well pleased, for, looking down on himself, admiringly, he sang — "Pisky fine, and pisky gay, Now will pisky fly away.
Página 318 - The region of his inner spirit teems With vital sounds, and monitory gleams Of high astonishment and pleasing fear. He the seven birds hath seen that never part, Seen the SEVEN WHISTLERS in their nightly rounds, And counted them: and oftentimes will start — For overhead are sweeping GABRIEL'S HOUNDS, Doom'd, with their impious Lord, the flying Hart, To chase for ever, on aerial grounds.
Página 243 - Right cheek ! left cheek ! why do you. burn? Cursed be she that doth me any harm. If it be a maid, let her be staid : If it be a widow ; long let her mourn : But if it be my own true love, Burn, cheek, burn I " Even the white patches at the roots of the nails, called gifts, are not without their significance.
Página 154 - ... little creature, human in appearance though diminutive in size, and apparently starving with cold and hunger. Pitying its condition, and perhaps aware that it was of elfish origin, and that good luck would amply repay him for his kind treatment of it, he took it home, placed it by the warm hearth on a stool, and fed it with nice milk. The poor bantling soon recovered from the lumpish and only half sensible state in which it was found, and though it never spoke became very lively and playful.
Página 159 - A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery tale of the subsequent ages.
Página 229 - ... her eyes shut into the fire and say that Bett Homer drove her in, continued thus above 7 weeks. She was about 10 years old. " That Sarah 9 years old was taken after ye same manner, complaining of being scratch'd in bed by a cat wch she said was Bett Homer whom she describ'd exactly in the apparel she had on, tho' the child had not seen her in 6 months before.