 | Francis Grose - English language - 1788 - 278 pages
...behind a woman, -*ith has face to the horfe's tail, holding a diftaff in his hand, at which he feems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle; a fmock difplayed on a ftaff is carried before them as an emblematical ftandard, denoting female fuperiorky:... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1852 - 502 pages
...wife : it consists of a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bull's-horns, marrowbones and cleavers, &c.—a procession admirably... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Fiction - 1872 - 464 pages
...behind a woman, with his face to the horse r s tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seemed to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle, and those who accompanied them making hideous noises with frying-pans, bull's-horns, marrowbones, cleavers,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1881 - 492 pages
...wife : it consists of a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bull's-horns, marrowbones and cleavers, &c.—a procession admirably... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 574 pages
...riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which lie seems to work, the woman all the while beating him...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bulls'-horns, marrow-bones and cleavers, &c.— a procession admirably... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...wife : it consists of a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bull'shorns, marrow-bones and cleavers, &c. a procession admirably... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 364 pages
...wife : it consists of a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bull'shorns, marrow-bones and cleavers, Ac. a procession admirably... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 356 pages
...wife : it consists of a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman...superiority : they are accompanied by what is called rough music, that is, frying-pans, bull'shorns, marrow-bones and cleavers, &c. a procession admirably... | |
 | Marlene Tromp - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 314 pages
...It consisted of”a man riding behind a woman with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle” (Hazlitt fli). They are accompanied by rough music. 2. In Desire and Domestic Fiction, Nancy Armstrong... | |
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in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle; a smock displayed on a staff is carried before them as an emblematical standard, denoting female superiority: they are accompanied by what is called the rough music,... 