 | John Yonge Akerman - English language - 1842 - 88 pages
...pole-ring. The word Snead is used in neighbouring counties, and in Derbyshire according to Mr. Bos worth. Sowlegrove. The month of February; now obsolete. Aubrey...seldome." — Anecdotes and Traditions. Printed by the Camden Society, p. 83, No. cxlvii. Spade. The gum of the eye. AS Speb ? Spanky. Shewy. Sprac k. Lively,... | |
 | rev. w.w. sjeat - 1880 - 360 pages
...called the pole-ring. The word snevd is used in Derbyshire, according to Mr. Bosworth. fSowlegrove, the month of February; now obsolete. Aubrey says—" The shepherds and vulgar people in S. Wilts, call Februarie Sowlegrove, and have this proverb of it, viz. ' Soulgrove sil lewe,' February... | |
 | John Aubrey - Folklore - 1881 - 296 pages
...Un-leavened Bread Torrida cum mica farra [Fasti, ii. 24] was a Purgamen. [Sowle-grove.~\ The Shepheards, and vulgar people in South Wilts call Februarie Sowlegrove : and have this proverbe of it : viz. Sowlegrove sil lew. 1 February is seldomo warme. Absolution. Omne nefas, omnemq'... | |
 | Adam Fox - History - 2000 - 526 pages
...weather to the kalends of May. They looke upon this as an oracle.' For the next month, he recorded that 'the shepherds, and vulgar people in south Wilts call Februarie "Sowlegrove": and have this proverbe of it, viz. "Sowlegrowe sil lew". That is, February is seidome warme.' Another 'proverbial... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - Fiction - 2006 - 656 pages
...braue lord. Soulgrove [February] Is seldom warm. 1687: Aubrey, Gentilisme, 9 (FLS), The shepheards, and vulgar people in South Wilts call Februarie Sowle-grove; and have this proverbe of it: viz. Sowlegrove sil [seldom] lew. February is seldome warme. 1846: Denham, Proverbs,... | |
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Sowlegrove. The month of February ; now obsolete. Aubrey says, " The shepherds and vulgar people in South Wilts, call Februarie ' Sowlegrove' and have this proverb of it:—viz. ' Soulgrove sil lew,'— February is seldome warme—sil pro seld, seldome."... 