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 | Fraternal organizations - 1847 - 480 pages
...As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating harvest-home : their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In Northumberland, when their labours were finished, the reapers used to raise a great shout, and cry... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 380 pages
...mostly servants, riding through the streets in a cart, shouted as loud as they could till they arrived at the barn. The farmers here do not bind up their corn in sheaves, as they do with us; but as soon as they have reaped or mowed it, put it into carts, and convey it to their barns." ••••**,... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they would keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants,...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." " I have seen," says Hutchinson, in his History of Northumberland, ii. ad finem, 17, "in some places,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhapst hey would signify Ceres. This they keep moving about,...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In the reign of James I., Moresin, another foreigner, saw a figure made of corn drawn home in a cart,... | |
 | George Daniel - English poetry - 1852 - 338 pages
...they would signify Ceres, this they keep moving about, while men and women, man and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the barn." . . . — Paul Hentzner. 1598. 9 " Then, why should I give way to grief ? Come, strike up pipe and... | |
 | George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 328 pages
...they would signify Ceres, this they keep moving about, while men and women, man and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the barn." . . . — Paul Hentzner. 1598. 9 " Then, why should I give way to grief? Come, strike up pipe and tabor... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...happened to meet some country-people celebrating harvest-home : their last load of corn they crowned with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed,...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In Northumberland, when their labours were wont to be given, without meat or drink or other courtesy... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres. This they Veep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants,...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn. " I h;ive seen," says Hutchinson in his " History of Northumberland," " in some places, an image apparelled... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1773 - 674 pages
...keep moving about, while the men and women, and men and maid-servants, riding through the streets in a cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the barn." There were numerous.other games and pastimes in vogue amongst our ancestors, but those we have touched... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - England - 1865 - 462 pages
...we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest-home (spicilegia sua celebrantes]; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having...corn in sheaves, as they do with us, but directly they have reaped or mowed it, put it into carts and convey it into their barns. There is a certain... | |
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