The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volumen1Gale Research Company, 1967 |
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... means of a letter , in which is written " On the first day of April Hunt the gowk another mile . " This is called " hunting_the_gowk ; " and the bearer of the " fools ' errand " is called an " April gowk . " Brand says , that gowk is ...
... means of a letter , in which is written " On the first day of April Hunt the gowk another mile . " This is called " hunting_the_gowk ; " and the bearer of the " fools ' errand " is called an " April gowk . " Brand says , that gowk is ...
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... means of the crotchets , or projecting stones on the outside of that beautiful and lofty spire . The projecting stones on which they stepped in the ascent are twenty - six in number , three feet asunder , and the summit of the spire 152 ...
... means of the crotchets , or projecting stones on the outside of that beautiful and lofty spire . The projecting stones on which they stepped in the ascent are twenty - six in number , three feet asunder , and the summit of the spire 152 ...
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... means be parted with , we should be enabled , in some degree , to ap- preciate their conflicts , and the heart - aches which precede and accompany them . In such inventories much jewellery , diamond rings , or valuable trinkets , are ...
... means be parted with , we should be enabled , in some degree , to ap- preciate their conflicts , and the heart - aches which precede and accompany them . In such inventories much jewellery , diamond rings , or valuable trinkets , are ...
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