Golspie: Contributions to Its FolkloreD. Nutt, 1897 - Počet stran: 351 |
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Strana 87 - SEE a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! CLX.
Strana 192 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Strana 192 - Twas like an eagle in the sky. When the sky began to roar Twas like a lion at the door. When the door began to crack Twas like a stick across my back. When my back began to smart Twas like a penknife in my heart. When my heart began to bleed Twas death and death and death indeed.
Strana 348 - School. 11, 12. From a scarce work acquired by me for the Bodleian, ' Views • in • Orkney • and • on • the . north-eastern • coast • of • Scotland • taken • in MDCCCV • and • etched . MDCCCVII • ', by the Duchess -Countess of Sutherland. Whether it be the fault of the drawing, the etching, or the printing, the distance between the Castle and Loch Fleet (the nearest part of which is almost 4 miles off) has been greatly under-represented in 12. William 'de Moravia,' the 1st...
Strana 102 - Lincolnshire rhyme runs : — Take out, and then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about.
Strana 61 - ... upwards. ... It is perfectly detached from any other hill ; and if it was not for its great size, might pass for a work of art." " Its length at top [is] about 300 yards ; I neglected measuring the base or the height, which are both considerable ; the breadth of the top [is] only twenty yards," Captain Burt, in his " Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland...
Strana 23 - The youth returned, and he gave the shoemaker a hundred pounds for tocher. They went to rest, and when she had laid down, she asked the lad for a drink of water from a tumbler that was on the board on the further side of the chamber. He went ; but out of that he could not come, as he held the vessel of water the length of the night.
Strana 8 - The good souls flocked like homing doves and bade him clear the path, And Peter twirled the jangling keys in weariness and wrath. 'Ye have read, ye have heard, ye have thought...
Strana 232 - When he was up he was up, And when he was down he was down, And when he was half-way up He was neither up nor down. [M. SJ Northall gives the following as a juvenile rime in Warwickshire, adding that ' It is also sung as a catch