 If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are put upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed until they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this...  The Family Library (Harper). - Seite 2111842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1812 - 1020 Seiten
...marriage. A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. The food used for this cuitom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called ¿rough ¡ which is of an extraordinary... | |
 | Thomas MacGill - 1811 - 204 Seiten
...marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former... | |
 | 1811 - 600 Seiten
...marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the , shackles which the former... | |
 | 1812 - 560 Seiten
...for marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. Jf she is to be married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1812 - 562 Seiten
...lost a former wile, the shackles which the former wife Wore, are put upon the new bride's limbs ; ami she is fed Until they are filled up to the proper thickness. This is sometimes no easy matter ; particularly if the former wife was fat, and the presentshould be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 Seiten
...has discharged, dispatched, or !<>st a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are pnt upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed until they...up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called druugh, which is of an extraordinary fattening quality,... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1816 - 690 Seiten
...she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ancles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1835 - 466 Seiten
...marriage. A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room, when shackles of gold and silver are put upon her ankles and wrists as a piece of dress....are put upon the new bride's limbs ; and she is fed till they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this purpose, worthy of barbarians,... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room ; shackles of gold and silver are placed upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. — If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former... | |
 | 1880 - 588 Seiten
...married to a man who has discharged, dispatched or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore are put upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed till they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians,... | |
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