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Page 73
... seems , to drink always under Newgate when the Lord Mayor passes that way ; and at this time the Lord Mayor's horse , being somewhat skittish , started at the sight of a large glittering tankard which was reached to his Lordship ...
... seems , to drink always under Newgate when the Lord Mayor passes that way ; and at this time the Lord Mayor's horse , being somewhat skittish , started at the sight of a large glittering tankard which was reached to his Lordship ...
Page 246
... seems to have been made not only of ivy ( see Bescherelle , s.v. " Bouchon " * ) , but also of laurel ( see Littré , same word ) , holly , and broom . These last two are men- tioned in George Sand's novel Le Meunier d'Angi- bault ; for ...
... seems to have been made not only of ivy ( see Bescherelle , s.v. " Bouchon " * ) , but also of laurel ( see Littré , same word ) , holly , and broom . These last two are men- tioned in George Sand's novel Le Meunier d'Angi- bault ; for ...
Page 276
... seems too whimsically far - fetched to be true . The earliest instance of the word I can discover is dewlappe in Wright's Vocabularies , p . 231 ( first ed . ) , and in the Catholicon Anglicum , p . 98 ( ed . Herrtage ) . 16. Larch , p ...
... seems too whimsically far - fetched to be true . The earliest instance of the word I can discover is dewlappe in Wright's Vocabularies , p . 231 ( first ed . ) , and in the Catholicon Anglicum , p . 98 ( ed . Herrtage ) . 16. Larch , p ...
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