 That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For,...  Insect Miscellanies - Page 97by James Rennie - 1831 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form: With teeth or with jlaws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sickl For, sure as a gun, they will give Up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it scratches... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 498 pages
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 498 pages
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Young adult poetry, English - 1886 - 136 pages
...wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house \vho are sick ; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Home economics - 1889 - 418 pages
...A wood-worm that lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite, it will scratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a death-watch , Because, like a watch, it will always cry, click, And woo be to those in the house that are sick! For sure as a gun they will... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Fairy tales - 1889 - 210 pages
...teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watchj Because, like a watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | English periodicals - 1899 - 628 pages
...insect — That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth and with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click. Then woe be to those in the house who are sick — the belief in its omen — not that it is a worm, but a small timberboring beetle... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
...Teeth or with Claws it will bite, or will scratch. And Chambermaids christen this Worm a Death Watch : Because like a Watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the House who are sick ; For as sure as a Gun they will give up the ghost, If the Maggot cries click, when it... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 480 pages
...in her form ; With teeth or with clawa it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen the worm a death-watch : Because like a watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen the worm a death-watch : Because like a watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
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