Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1878 |
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Seite 284 - But Boobyclod soon drops upon the ground, A certain token that his love's unsound; While Lubberkin sticks firmly to the last; Oh, were his lips to mine but join'd so fast ! ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.
Seite 285 - A troop of boys visited the different orchards, and, encircling the apple trees, repeated the following words: 'Stand fast, root! bear well, top! Pray God send us a good howling crop: Every twig, apples big; Every bough, apples enow!' 'They then shout in chorus, one of the boys accompanying them on a cow's horn. During this ceremony they rap the trees with their sticks.
Seite 121 - Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Seite 285 - To the preceding particulars, which are related in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1791, may be added that Brand, on the authority of a Cornishman, relates it as a custom with the Devonshire people to go after supper into the orchard, with a large milk-pan full of cider, having roasted apples pressed into it. " Out of this each person in company takes, what is called a clayen cup...
Seite 252 - Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies ; Dead he is not, — but departed, — for the artist never dies.
Seite 251 - They were lovely in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Seite 285 - ... of the more fruitful apple-trees, passing by those that are not good bearers, he addresses it in the following words : ' Health to thee, good apple-tree, Well to bear, pocket-fulls, hat-fulls, Peck-fulls...
Seite 153 - He was obliged to make definitions for himself: he called a circle a round, a line a bar, and so on with the rest.
Seite 126 - We tear out earth's entrails in order to extract the gems with which we may load our fingers. How many hands are worn down, that one little joint may be ornamented !