 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 Seiten
...town : so well were they contented. Pillows, they said, were thought meet only for women in childbed : 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 of is the exchange of treene platters (so called,... | |
 | John James - 1841 - 650 Seiten
...chaff to rest his head, he " thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town ;" and again, " if they had any sheet above them it was well, for " seldom had they any under their bodies to keep their rased " hides from the pricking straws." The furniture of the ordinary dwelling-houses, chiefly... | |
 | George Ellis - 1845 - 382 Seiten
...as the lord of the town ; that, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers." — " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...their bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws than ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." (p. 188.) The progress... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1845 - 280 Seiten
...Pillowes, said they, were meete only for women in childebedde. As for servants, if they had any shete above them it was well, for seldom had they any under...bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws that run oft thorough the canvas, and raced their hardened sides." — Holinshed. Rescript, of England,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1845 - 286 Seiten
...Fillowes, said they, were meete only for women in childebedde. As for servants, if they had any shete above them it was well, for seldom had they any under...bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws that run oft thorough the canvas, and raced their hardened sides." — Holinshed. Uescript. of England,... | |
 | Thomas Webster - 1845 - 598 Seiten
...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 they had any under their bodies, to keep them from the prickling straws, that ran oft through the canvass,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 680 Seiten
...himself as well lodged as the lord of tho town. Pillows were thought meet only for sick women ; and as for servants, if they had any sheet above them...bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that oft ran through the canvass on which they rested. ». Domestic 31. »: The third thing of which our... | |
 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...so well were they contented, and with such base kind of furniture. As for servants, if they had one sheet above them, it was well ; for seldom had they...the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass of the pallet, and razed their hardened skins." LYCIA AND ITS PEOPLE. BE pleased, good reader, to imagine... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1847 - 862 Seiten
...lord of the town. As for servants, if ther lad a sheet above them it was well; for seldom had thev any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of is, the eihange of treene (wooden)... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 732 Seiten
...himself as well lodged as the lord of the town. Pillows were thought meet only for sick women; and as for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well, for seldom liad they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that oft ran through the canvass... | |
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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... 
