The every day book: or a guide to the year: describing the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days in past and present timesWilliam Tegg, 1866 |
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... bells from the steeple announce the event ; and groups of friends and relations , not forgetting distant cousins and children , are seen making their way , long before the hour of dinner , to the appointed spot . This is Sunday ; and in ...
... bells from the steeple announce the event ; and groups of friends and relations , not forgetting distant cousins and children , are seen making their way , long before the hour of dinner , to the appointed spot . This is Sunday ; and in ...
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... bells at intervals send forth an enlivening peal ; all work is nearly suspended ; gay stalls of ginger- bread and fruit , according to the season of the year , together with swings and roundabouts , spread out their allurements to the ...
... bells at intervals send forth an enlivening peal ; all work is nearly suspended ; gay stalls of ginger- bread and fruit , according to the season of the year , together with swings and roundabouts , spread out their allurements to the ...
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... Bell , " was formerly called the " Bell and Horns . " About fifty years ago , it was kept by one Anderson , who had his " horns " over his door , to denote that persons were sworn there as well as Wright , the then landlord of the " Red ...
... Bell , " was formerly called the " Bell and Horns . " About fifty years ago , it was kept by one Anderson , who had his " horns " over his door , to denote that persons were sworn there as well as Wright , the then landlord of the " Red ...
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... Bells . The passing bell owes its origin to an idea of sanctity attached to bells by the early Catholics , who believed that the sound of these holy instruments of per- cussion actually drove the devil away from the soul of the ...
... Bells . The passing bell owes its origin to an idea of sanctity attached to bells by the early Catholics , who believed that the sound of these holy instruments of per- cussion actually drove the devil away from the soul of the ...
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... ( bells ) when rung . Some have recourse to the latin word clangor , others recur to the greek kaλew , I call ; some even deduce it from the word cochlea , a snail , from the resemblance of its shell to a bell . As to the latin word ...
... ( bells ) when rung . Some have recourse to the latin word clangor , others recur to the greek kaλew , I call ; some even deduce it from the word cochlea , a snail , from the resemblance of its shell to a bell . As to the latin word ...
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