Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Band 1Thomas Wright H. G. Bohn, 1857 - 1039 Seiten |
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Seite 969 - Character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a Swearing, Drinking, W'horing, Ruffian for a Lover, and an impudent ill-bred tomrig for a Mistress...
Seite 761 - If the conjurer be but well paid, he'll take pains upon the ghost, and lay him, look ye, in the Red Sea and then. he's laid for ever.
Seite 503 - You that would last long, list to my song, Make no more coil, but buy of this oil. Would you be ever fair and young ? Stout of teeth, and strong of tongue...
Seite 700 - Now is the time that rakes their revells keep; Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep. His scatter'd pence the flying Nicker flings, And with the copper show'r the casement rings. Who has not heard the Scowrer's midnight fame? Who has not trembled at the Mohock's name?
Seite 490 - DICTIONARY OF OBSOLETE AND PROVINCIAL ENGLISH, Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use or are Not Used in the Same Sense, and Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects Edited by Thomas Wright Defines thousands of obsolete words used from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century.
Seite 534 - Anofficer of the royal household whose business it was to see the king's lodging furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing ; as also to provide cards, dice, &c and to decide disputes arising at games.
Seite 817 - And if it were, he solemnly then swore His spring should flow some other way : no more Should it in wanton manner...
Seite 618 - I'm afraid o' my boy. Come, come, George, let's be merry and wise: the child's a fatherless child; and say they should put him into a strait pair of gaskins, 'twere worse than knot-grass; he would never grow after it.] Enter RALPH, TIM, and GEORGE.
Seite 818 - To make a sack-posset. Take two quarts of pure good cream, a quarter of a pound of the best almonds, stamp them in the cream and boil amber and musk therein ; then take a pint of sack in a bason, and set it on a chafingdish till it be blood warm ; then take the yolks of twelve eggs, with four whites, and beat them very well together; and so put the eggs into the sack, and make it good and hot ; let the cream cool a little before you put it into the sack ; then stir all together over the coals, till...