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Studies in Nidderdale: Upon Notes and Observations Other Than Geological ... Joseph Lucas No preview available - 2015 |
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A. S. Laws ah've Bakstone Ballads bank Barden Fell barn be'y Beck Bewerley birch bird Brimham Rocks Burn called cattle Celt Cleas Cleasby Colsterdale common Coverdale Crags Dale Head dialect Dicky Dict district doon fadther farm feet Fell field Gael Garth Gill gives Glossary Goth grass Greenhow Hill Greenhowhill Grimm Grit ground hazel high moors Highest living hill horse Icel Kettlewell land limestone Little Whernside Lofthouse Marten me'y means Micky Middlesmoor miles Mountain Ash nest Nidd Nidderdale Norsk Norway nowt oade originally oththe pasture Pateley Bridge peat place names plough pron Ramsgill ridge Ring Ouzel river Russ Sandstone says Scar she'y sheep sheltered shepherd side Sike slope Stean steep stone Stratm stream Swed t'oade ther trees valley Welsh Wharfe Wharfedale whence Whernside Winksley wood word Yorkshire
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Page 18 - Under the flaps of his saddle, each man carries a broad plate of metal; behind the saddle, a little bag of oatmeal: when they have eaten too much of the sodden flesh, and their stomach appears weak and empty, they place this plate over the fire, mix with water their oatmeal, and when the plate is heated, they put a little of the paste upon it, and make a thin cake, like a cracknel or biscuit, which they eat to warm their stomachs : it is therefore no wonder, that they perform a longer day's march...
Page 47 - Lastly, they dance rapidly backwards, and vehemently rattling the sides of their swords together, conclude their sport. Pipes, or songs (sometimes both) direct the measure, which at first is slow, but increasing afterwards, becomes a very quick one towards the conclusion.
Page 76 - This year the Romans collected all the treasures that were in Britain, and some they hid in the earth, so that no one has since been able to find them ; and some they carried with them into Gaul.
Page 18 - They bring no carriages with them, on account of the mountains they have to pass in Northumberland ; neither do they carry with them any provisions of bread...
Page 18 - ... without wine. They have, therefore, no occasion for pots or pans ; for they dress the flesh of their cattle in the skins, after they have taken them off ; and, being sure to find plenty of them in the country which they invade, they carry none with them.
Page 47 - Northumberland on the annual festivity of Christmas, the Yule-tide of the Druids. "Young Men march from Village to Village, and from House to House, with Music before them, dressed in an antic attire, and before the vestibulum or entrance of every house entertain the family with the Motus incompositus, the antic Dance, or Chorus Armatus, with Sword or Spears in their hands, erect and shining.
Page xv - In building and furniture of their houses, till of late years, they used the old manner of the Saxons ; for they had their fire in the midst of the house against a hob of clay, and their oxen also under the same roof ; but within these forty years it is altogether altered, so that they have built chimnies, and furnished other parts of their houses accordingly.
Page 15 - tiffany cakes : of wheaten flour, which was separated from the bran by being worked through a hair-sieve tiffany, or temse : — south of England Tammy, — with a brush called the Brush shank." ROYAL FEASTS AND SAVAGE POMP. IN Rose's "School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth...
Page 24 - Wi' many good e'ens and days to me, Saying, Goodwife, for your courtesie, Will you lodge a silly poor man ? The night was cauld, the carle was wat, And down ayont the ingle he sat ; My daughter's shoulders he 'gan to clap, And cadgily ranted and sang. O wow ! quo...
Page 267 - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.