 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 696 pages
...As far from malice everie way, as prudence уз from pryde." Who was the author of the lines — " The shaggy wolfish skin he wore, Pinned by a polished bone before " ? A. They are quoted by the late Rev. J. Mac Enery, in his Cavern Researches. WM. PEXOELLY". " Lovest... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Archaeology - 1851 - 776 pages
...bodkins, by others for confining the hair, like those ornaments used by the women in Italy ; lastly, they were supposed, with more probability, to be a...skin in front which served savages for garments. The third article does not seem so easy to explain ; it is of a different shape, quite flat, broad at one... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1857 - 796 pages
...bodkins ; by others, for confining the hair, like those ornaments used by the women in Italy ; lastly, they were supposed, with more probability, to be a...savages for garments. The shaggy wolfish skin he wore, Pinn'd by a polish'd bone before. "The third article does not seem quite so easy to explain: it is... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Ethnology - 1861 - 554 pages
...bodkins, by others, for confining the hair, like those ornaments used by the women in Italy ; lastly, they were supposed, with more probability, to be a...skin in front, which served savages for garments. The third article does not seem so easy to explain ; it is of a different shape, quite flat, broad at one... | |
 | William Pengelly - 1868 - 396 pages
...bodkins, by others for confining the hair like those ornaments used by the women in Italy — lastly they were supposed, with more probability, to be a...fastening the skin in front which served savages for garment. " The shaggy wolfish skin he -wore Pinned by a polished hone before.1' (Herbert) As precisely... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1869 - 506 pages
...likewise pointed." They may have been either bodkins, or pins for fastening the garments of a savage race. The shaggy wolfish skin he wore Pinned by a polished..." The third article does not seem quite so easy to explain ; it is of a different shape, quite flat, broad at one end, pointed at the other ;" the former... | |
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... inches long, rounded, slender, and likewise pointed. Conjecture was long busy as to their destination ; they were thought by some to be bodkins ; by others, for confining the hair, like those ornaments used by the women in Italy ; lastly, they were... 
