 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 160 Seiten
...might be seen in the water, in deep devotion, and up to their chins, for hours; sending up their pious prayers; or performing a number of evolutions round...well; or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times. " The bathing well," he adds, " is an oblong, 38 feet by 16, with steps... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 568 Seiten
...says, " a few are still to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions...well ; or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times. A crowned head," he adds, " in the last age, dignified the place with a... | |
 | sir James MacNabb Campbell - 1885 - 540 Seiten
...summer still a few are to be seen in the water in deep devotion up to their chins for hours sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions...well, or threading the arch between well and well a number of times " (Brand's Pop. Ant., II, 367). In the curious manuscript account of the customs in... | |
 | James Edward Vaux - 1894 - 376 Seiten
...summer still a few are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arches a prescribed number of times." In London there are various ancient wells which have retained... | |
 | 1897 - 1030 Seiten
...summer still a few are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arches a prescribed number of times." The fountain is enshrined within a perpendicular Gothic building.... | |
 | William Andrews - 1898 - 334 Seiten
...said, " persons are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their shins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arches a prescribed number of times." This custom was fatal to Sir George Peckham, of whom it is recorded... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1899 - 940 Seiten
...not yet extinct. The devoted would spend hours in them, standing in water up to their chins, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well. The bathing well of Whiteford had a large stone, two feet beneath the water, which received many a... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 Seiten
...Summer, still, a few are to be seen in the water in deep devotion up to their Chins for hours, sending up their prayers or performing a number of Evolutions...Well, or threading the Arch between Well and Well a prescribed number of times." The bathing well of Whiteford was an oblong 38 feet by 16, with steps... | |
 | John Brand - 1900 - 574 Seiten
...in the water in deep devotion up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing & number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times." In the History of Whiteford Parish, p. 223, he adds : "The bathing well... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 Seiten
...water im deep devotion up *° their Chins for hours, sending up their prayers «fcr performing a numb« of Evolutions round the polygonal Well, or threading the Arch between Well and Well a prescribed number of times." The bathing well of Whiteford was an oblong 38 feet by 16, with steps... | |
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Summer, still, a few are to be seen in the water in deep devotion up to their Chins for hours, sending up their prayers or performing a number of Evolutions round the polygonal Well, or threading the Arch between Well and Well a prescribed number of times. 
