 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 Seiten
...Iddged as the lord of the towne, that, peradventure, lay seldom in a. bed of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' The lateness... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 Seiten
...lodged as the lord of the towne, that, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' The lateness... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 418 Seiten
...pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed: as for servants, if they had any sheets above them, it was well; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from pricking draws, that ran oft through the canvass and their hardened hides. The third thing they tell... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 Seiten
...lodged as the lord of the tovvne, that, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawea that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." Why was the... | |
 | George Browning (of London.) - 1834 - 702 Seiten
...a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town ; as for servants, if they had any sheet above them...pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides. — The third thing they tell us of, is the exchange of trene platters... | |
 | 1835 - 480 Seiten
...Even " the lord of the town " seldom lay in a bed of down or whole feathers. An old writer says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." Again, in Skipton Castle, one of the most splendid... | |
 | Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - 412 Seiten
...Even " the lord of the town" seldom lay in a bed of down or whole feathers. An old writer says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." Again, in Skipton Castle, one of the most splendid... | |
 | 1837 - 664 Seiten
...a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town ; as for servants, if they had any sheet above them...bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell us of, is the exchange... | |
 | 1840 - 474 Seiten
...well were they contented. " " Pillows," said they, " were thought meet only for women in child-bed : as for servants, if they had any sheet above them...from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas, and rased their hardened hides." From this old use of straw for beds comes the phrase of the... | |
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... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to... 
