 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, wae plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree in the suffering1 part was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 634 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a procès«, ibe poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree WRS plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. Oil the Flcbtur, an area near the church, lakiv... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. * If the parts coalesced * Among the popular superstitions of Britain trees have always held a conspicuous place.... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1835 - 934 pages
...\vould bc cured of their infirmily. As soon, äs the Operation was over, the tree in the sulFering part, •was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the part coalesced aod soldered together, äs usually feil out, where the feat was performed with any adroitnefs at all,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness... | |
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... that in former times they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children stripped naked were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that by such a process, the... 
