 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1891 - 536 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 - Biology - 1891 - 840 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 Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1891 - 384 pages
...their parents through the apertures under the impression that they would be cured of their infirmities. As soon as the operation was over the tree in 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... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1892 - 554 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 - 1895 - 268 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... | |
 | 1896 - 538 pages
...stripped 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... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - Forests and forestry - 1899 - 458 pages
...stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that by such a processthe poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As: soon as the...part was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up.If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, und»: • 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 p»r.. was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalescri and soldered together,... | |
 | Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley - Folklore - 1900 - 292 pages
...through the apertures, under the persuasion that by such a process the poor babies would be cured. As soon as the operation was over, the tree in the suffering part was plastered over with loam and carefully swathed up. If the part coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 886 pages
...through the apertures, nr.dr a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of the: infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree, in the suffering put was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coales-ti and soldered together,... | |
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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... 
