The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, Volumen1W. Crofts, 1828 - 359 páginas |
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2d vol Allan Ramsay Antiq applied Bartas Battle of Otterburne beat BELG Ben Jonson Brand's Pop Brockett Burns called cattle Chauc Chaucer Cheshire clam common corn corruption Cotgrave Craven Cronycle derives Dialect doth Doug Douglas Virg drink Du Bartas dung English etymon expression fair Fairfax Tasso feaful fellow fire frae frequently gang Gentle Shepherd Glossary GOTH hath hence horse Idem iron Jamieson Johnson King kittle KNAA Lancashire language LEET Linn Lord loup mell Miege milk Minshew Minst Moor Nares nivver obsolete person Piers Plou Plou Poems Præt probably Quentin Durward Richmondshire Ronan's Saxon says Scotland Scottish sense Shaks Shakspeare sheep Shoe's signifies Skinner Spenser stone substantive supposed synonymous Tale TEUT thee thing thou Tim Bobbin Todd Todd's second edition Tusser verb Verstegan Vide weel WELSH Wiclif word
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Página 281 - David, and he shall not shrink from it; 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat. 13 If thy children will keep my covenant, and my testimonies that I shall learn them; their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore.
Página 305 - 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.
Página 317 - Tam, had'st thou but been sae wise, As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice! She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum; That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder wi...
Página 89 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Página 199 - Gin my seven sons were seven young hares, Running oer yon lilly lee, And I were a grew hound mysell, Soon worried they a
Página 234 - To sing how Nannie lap and flang, (A souple jade she was, and strang), And how Tam stood, like ane bewitched, And thought his very een enriched; Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain, And hotched and blew wi' might and main: Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tam tint his reason a' thegither, And roars out "Weel done, Cutty-sark!
Página 72 - ... 36, it may be well to add the following from Richardson : " CLAM, or CLEM, to hold tight ; Anglo-Saxon, Clam, a band. Clamm'd, in Gloucestershire, Mr. Grose says, means to be choked up, as the mill is clamm'd up ; and in the North, starved.
Página 103 - LAST May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen And sair wi' his love he did deave me : I said there was naething I hated like men, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me. He spak o...
Página 16 - Whoever draws the black bit, is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Página 222 - Ambrose and Basil call it, of drinking healths, and making that a sacrifice to God for the health of others, which is rather a sacrifice to the devil, and a bane of their own.