 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident fore-fathers always kept a shrewash... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a jsAreiw-ash... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Again« this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefather! always kept... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...horse in the fields happened to be shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so banefid and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1836 - 440 pages
...that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beastv be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is...threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash... | |
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... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. 
