| 1832 - 440 pagine
...when they have tired their hands every female uses her feet for the same purpose, (still sitting,) and six or seven pair of naked feet are in the most...they grow very earnest in their labours, the fury of their song rises ; at length it arrives at such a pitch, that without breach of charity you would suppose... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1861 - 470 pagine
...they were tired of working it backwards and forwards with their hands, "every female," says Pennant, " uses her feet for the same purpose, and six or seven...the fury of the song rises ; at length it arrives at such a pitch, that without breach of charity you would imagine a troop of female demoniacs to have... | |
| Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 492 pagine
...they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same as at the Quern : when they have tired their hands, every female uses...or seven pair of naked feet are in the most violent state of agitation, working one against the other ; as by this time they grow very earnest in their... | |
| Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 512 pagine
...they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same as at the Quern : when they have tired their hands, every female uses...or seven pair of naked feet are in the most violent state of agitation, working one against the other ; as by this time they grow very earnest in their... | |
| Ephraim Lipson - 1921 - 298 pagine
...begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same time as at the Quern:2 when they have tired their hands, every female uses her feet for the same purpose, and 1 Some worsteds are now lightly milled. 2 Ie, mill-grinding. Late survival of the old mode of fulling.... | |
| Jan Ling - 1997 - 268 pagine
...they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same time as the Quern: when they have tired their hands, every female uses...other: as by this time they grow very earnest in their labors, the fury of the song rises: at length it arrives to such a pitch, that without breach of charity... | |
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