The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, Volumen2

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W. Crofts, 1828 - 359 páginas
 

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Página 325 - Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Página 91 - It fell that, in that ladye's castle, The King was boun to bed ; And up and spake the popinjay, That flew abune his head. EARL RICHARD. / " Leave aff your douking on the day, " And douk upon the night; And where that sackless knight lies slain, . The candles will burn bright."— " O there's a bird within this bower, That sings baith sad and sweet; » O there's a bird within your bower, Keeps me frae my night's sleep.
Página 213 - I'm sae happy, I shall have delight, To hear their little plaints, and keep .them right. Wow ! Jenny, can there greater pleasure be, Than see sic wee tots toolying at your knee ; When a...
Página 233 - But Hannah went not up ; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
Página 341 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh. . . . Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
Página 139 - When first the Year, I heard the Cuckoo sing, And call with welcome Note the budding Spring, I straightway set a running with such Haste, Deb'rah, that won the Smock, scarce ran so fast. 'Till spent for lack of Breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising Bank I sat adown...
Página 100 - faire une ecole" is rendered "to be pegged." Peascod Wooing:. — Grose tells us that a " scalding of peas is a custom in the North of boiling the common grey peas in the shell, and eating them with butter and salt, first shelling them. A bean, shell and all, is put into one of the pea-pods : whoever gets this bean is to be first married.
Página 62 - I sdein'd subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude...
Página 85 - Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee : is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Página 168 - Afterwards she took the bridegroom's stocking, and standing at the bottom of the bed, with her back towards it, threw the stocking with the left hand over the right shoulder, aiming at the face of the bridegroom. — This was done first by all the females in rotation ; and afterwards the young men took the bride's stocking, and in the same manner, threw it at her face.

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