 own consumption.' 1 It shines like Worcester against Gloucester ' is a very old saying. A stone church, a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people. is a proverb at Tibberton. Sell wheat and buy rye, Say the bells of Tenbury. All about Malvern...  A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases - Page 3by Barzillai Lowsley - 1888 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Noake - Worcestershire (England) - 1848 - 396 pages
...churchwarden of Tibberton suggested a rhyming couplet to be placed over the door of this church— " A stone church, a wooden steeple— A drunken parson, a wicked people." However suggestive of the former condition of Tibberton the churchwarden's jingle may have been, internal... | |
 | John Noake - Worcestershire (England) - 1868 - 432 pages
...has a chancel, nave, and little wooden tower and spire at west end. There was an old rhyme here— " A stone church, a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people." The incumbent alluded to, however, spent several hundred pounds for the benefit of the parish in his... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...Oddingley Heath."—B. 324. Sell wheat, and buy rye, Say the bells of Tenbury.—S. 39. TIBBERTON. A stone church, a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people. 8. 39: Some years ago the then waggish churchwarden suprested a [the above] rhyming couplet to be placed... | |
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 616 pages
...Oddingley Heath."—B. 324. Sell wheat, and buy rye, Say the bells of Tenbury.—S. 39. TlBBERTON. A stone church, a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people. & 39: Some years ago the then waggish churchwarden suggested a [the above] rhyming couplet to be placed... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk songs, English - 1892 - 590 pages
...called Oddingley Heath."—B. 324. Sell wheat, and buy rye, Say the bells of Tenbury.—S. 39. TON. A stone church, a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people. 9: Some years ago the then waggish churchwarden sugi [the above] rhyming couplet to be placed over... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1902 - 550 pages
...Tenbury.—Chamberlain, West War, Words. " Sell wheat and buy rye," TIBBERTON [3 m. ENE of Worcester]. A stone church, a wooden steeple, a drunken parson, a wicked people. Noake, Ram., p. 288 ; Chamberlain. WICKENFORD [2 m. SE of Evesham]. See Gloucestershire, Buckland.... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1902 - 546 pages
...Tenbury.—Chamberlain, West War. Words. " Sell wheat and buy rye," TIEEERTON [3 m. ENE of Worcester]. A stone church, a wooden steeple, a drunken parson, a wicked people. Noake, Ram., p. 288 ; Chamberlain. WICKENFORD [2 m. SE of Evesham]. See Gloucestershire, Buckland.... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - Fiction - 2006 - 656 pages
...[with 'Tim* for'Tom']. Tlbberton. See quot. 1882: Mrs Chamberlain, W. Wares. WWj,39(EDS),Astonechurch,a wooden steeple, A drunken parson, a wicked people, is a proverb at Tibbcrton. Tib's eve, neither before nor after Christmas. One of the many euphemisms for 'never'. 1785:... | |
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