 | John Porter - Fylde (England) - 1876 - 518 pages
...superior to another mode of correction, much in fashion during his day, says : — " This artifice is much to be preferred to the ducking-stool, which not only endangers the health of the party, but gives liberty of tongue betwixt every dip." The Ducking-stool or Cuck-stool consisted of a substantial... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - Social Science - 1896 - 198 pages
...Walsall for correcting of scolds, which it does too, so effectually and so very safely that I look upon it as much to be preferred to the ducking-stool, which not only endan98 gers the health of the party, but also gives her tongue liberty to wag, twixt every dip, to... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - Punishment - 1896 - 188 pages
...Walsall for correcting of scolds, which it does too, so effectually and so very safely that I look upon it as much to be preferred to the ducking-stool, which not only endan98 gers the health of the party, but also gives her tongue liberty to wag, twixt every dip, to... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...effectually and so very safely, that I look upon it as much to be preferred to the cucking stoole, which not only endangers the health of the party, but also gives the tongue liberty 'twixt every dipp ; to neither of which this is at all liable : it being such a bridle for the tongue as not only... | |
 | John Bouvier, Francis Rawle - Law - 1914 - 1210 pages
...and so very safely that It was looked upon by Dr. Plotts, in his History of Staffordshire, p. 389, "as much to be preferred to the ducking-stool, which...health of the party, but also gives the tongue liberty 'twlxt every dip, to neither of which Is this liable ; it brings such a bridle for the tongue as not... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Archaeology - 1862 - 412 pages
...effectually, and so very safely, that I look upon it as much to be preferred to the Cocking -stoole, which not only endangers the health of the party, but also gives the tongue liberty 'twixt every dipp ; to neither of which is this at all lyable ; it being such a bridle for the tongue, as not only... | |
 | English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...effectually, and so very safely, that I look upon it as much to be preferred to the Cucking-Stoole which not only endangers the health of the party but also gives the tongue liberty twixt every dipp ; to neither of which this is at all lyable : it being such a Bridle for the tongue as not only... | |
 | Archaeology - 1860 - 316 pages
...effectually, and so very safely, that I look upon it as much to be prefered to the Cucking-Stoole, which not only endangers the health of the party, but also gives the tongue liberty twixt every dipp ; to neither of which is this at all lyable ; it being such a bridle for the tongue, as not only... | |
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Walsatt, for correcting of scolds, which it does too so effectually, and so very safely, that I look upon it... 
