 ... some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains,...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 55by Walter Scott - 1820 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the .mountains, where they least and riot for many days : and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many day»; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Fletcher was a lover... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1819 - 344 pages
...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." The other is from a... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting to» gether.» Notwithstanding the deplorable picture presented in this extract, and which Fletcher... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1822 - 344 pages
...many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, ' where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." The other is from a... | |
 | 1824 - 470 pages
...many •thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, ahd at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually 'drunk, cursing, blaspheming and fighting together." * These then are the... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1828 - 214 pages
...many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; ' and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...' like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and wo. ' men perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting. ' together.'1 i Second Discourse... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing1, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the deplorable picture presented in... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 438 pages
...many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they feast and riot for ' many days ; and at country weddings, markets, ' burials, and other...like public occasions, they ' are to be seen, both men and women, perpe' tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting ' together.' Fletcher was a... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." • We suspect there... | |
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