Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious Glossary, Illus. by Authorities from Ancient English & Scottish Writers, & Exemplified by Two Familiar Dialogues, Volume 1 |
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... light on ancient English authors . But I cannot forbear remarking , that if the Doctor had not been so abstemious in making quotations from English writers of antiquity , his great work , highly respectable as it is , would have been ...
... light on ancient English authors . But I cannot forbear remarking , that if the Doctor had not been so abstemious in making quotations from English writers of antiquity , his great work , highly respectable as it is , would have been ...
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... light of the Gospel has , from time immemorial , dispelled from this district the darkness of heathen and idolatrous superstition , yet , as there are many vestiges of their ancient rites still visible on our moors , it may not be ...
... light of the Gospel has , from time immemorial , dispelled from this district the darkness of heathen and idolatrous superstition , yet , as there are many vestiges of their ancient rites still visible on our moors , it may not be ...
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... LIGHT , To light candles before dark . " Come , we burn day - light . " Sh . Rom . and Jul . i . 4 . BURN - HIS - FINGERS , Is when a person has failed or been over - reached in any attempt . BURTHENSOME , Productive . " T'land's feaful ...
... LIGHT , To light candles before dark . " Come , we burn day - light . " Sh . Rom . and Jul . i . 4 . BURN - HIS - FINGERS , Is when a person has failed or been over - reached in any attempt . BURTHENSOME , Productive . " T'land's feaful ...
Page 65
... makes skue and chamfret synonymous , viz . to slope the edge of a stone as masons do in windows , for the gaining of light . CHANCE - BARN , An illegitimate child . F CHAP , Fellow , a purchaser . S. G. kaeps GLOSSARY 65.
... makes skue and chamfret synonymous , viz . to slope the edge of a stone as masons do in windows , for the gaining of light . CHANCE - BARN , An illegitimate child . F CHAP , Fellow , a purchaser . S. G. kaeps GLOSSARY 65.
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... light . " Spens . F. Q. " Who clombe an hundred ivory stairs first told . " CLOMP , To make a noise . BELG . klompen . Fairfax Tasso . CLOMPERTON , A person who walks heavily . CLOSE - BED , A shut - up bed . CLOT , To spread dung or ...
... light . " Spens . F. Q. " Who clombe an hundred ivory stairs first told . " CLOMP , To make a noise . BELG . klompen . Fairfax Tasso . CLOMPERTON , A person who walks heavily . CLOSE - BED , A shut - up bed . CLOT , To spread dung or ...
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2d vol Allan Ramsay Antiq applied Bartas beat BELG Ben Jonson Brand's Pop Brockett Burns called carrion crow cattle Chauc Chaucer clam common corn corruption Cotgrave Craven crooked derives Dialect doth Doug Douglas Virg Du Bartas dung English etymon expression Fairfax Tasso feaful fellow fire frequently gang Gentle Shepherd Glossary GOTH hath hence horse House of Fame Idem iron Jamieson Johnson King kittle KNAA labour language LEET Linn Lord mell Miege milk Minshew Minst Moor Nares nivver obsolete person Piers Plou Plou Poems Præt probably Quentin Durward Richmondshire Ronan's Saxon says Scotch Scotland Scottish sense Shaks Shakspeare sheep shoe Shoe's signifies Skinner Spenser stone substantive Supp supposed Tale TEUT thee thing thou Thou's Tim Bobbin Todd Trans Tusser verb Verstegan Vide wapentake weel WELSH Wiclif word
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Page 285 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
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Page 204 - UPON a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff the caller air. The rising sun, owre Galston muirs, Wi' glorious light was glintin ; The hares were hirplin down the furs, The lav'rocks they were chantin Fu
Page 242 - There were the ware of a wight yeoman, His body leaned to a tree. A sword and a dagger he wore by his side, Of manye a man the bane ; And he was clad in his capull hyde Topp and tayll and mayne. Stand you still, master...
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Page 161 - my sight soon mayst thou be! I grantit nevir a traitor's life, And now I'll not begin wi' thee!' 'Grant me my life, my liege, my King! And a bonny gift I'll gie to thee Gude four-and-twenty ganging mills, That gang thro ' a