Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire: an Exmoor Scolding and CourtshipEnglish dialect society, 1879 - 222 Seiten |
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... applied to the language spoken by the people of the Northern part corresponding to Holland and Friesland , to distinguish it from the Low Dutch ' of Flanders and Brabant . Even now it is common among the better class of people to speak ...
... applied to the language spoken by the people of the Northern part corresponding to Holland and Friesland , to distinguish it from the Low Dutch ' of Flanders and Brabant . Even now it is common among the better class of people to speak ...
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... applied to a very small cluster of dwellings - sometimes to a single homestead . 12Sooner than thy life ' is a very common expression to denote extreme desire . Rather in this sense is a literaryism . Wilmot would certainly now say zèo ...
... applied to a very small cluster of dwellings - sometimes to a single homestead . 12Sooner than thy life ' is a very common expression to denote extreme desire . Rather in this sense is a literaryism . Wilmot would certainly now say zèo ...
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... ( applied to a tale ) . Culvers , pigeons . Burnish , to grow fat , or increase in Daps , likeness [ the very daps of one , bulk , look bright , rosy . Butt , a bee - butt , or hive . the exact likeness in shape , or manners . ] Cat - ham ...
... ( applied to a tale ) . Culvers , pigeons . Burnish , to grow fat , or increase in Daps , likeness [ the very daps of one , bulk , look bright , rosy . Butt , a bee - butt , or hive . the exact likeness in shape , or manners . ] Cat - ham ...
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... applied to conduct or character - the sense would have been identical if the word harm had been omitted , and it had been written , ha cant zey nothing by ma . The word is used here precisely in the same sense as -- ' I know nothing by ...
... applied to conduct or character - the sense would have been identical if the word harm had been omitted , and it had been written , ha cant zey nothing by ma . The word is used here precisely in the same sense as -- ' I know nothing by ...
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... applied to Milk , Beer , & c .; sometimes to be prickt or gored , so as to be made to fret or fume . Vide Skinner . [ u - púr ld ] ( rare , obsolescent ) . It is common to speak of cider as ' pricked ' when turning sour , and there is ...
... applied to Milk , Beer , & c .; sometimes to be prickt or gored , so as to be made to fret or fume . Vide Skinner . [ u - púr ld ] ( rare , obsolescent ) . It is common to speak of cider as ' pricked ' when turning sour , and there is ...
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Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire. an Exmoor Scolding and Courtship Frederick Thomas Elworthy,William Hutton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Andrew appear applied beat better called ch-úl chell common Dame dialect Dialogue early edition English Exmoor expression fire folks gang give given Glossary gurt hand head heard hence horse implies John kind late live look mack Margery Mary means never North obsolete person piece poor present printed pronounced references seem'd sense side soon sound spelt sure talk tell thee thing Thomasin thou true turn twas usual vore vrom W. S. Gram weel Wilmot word written Yorkshire young
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Seite ix - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Seite 203 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Seite 203 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...
Seite 191 - And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more...
Seite xviii - Melismata. Musicall Phansies, fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey Humours, to 3, 4 and 5 Voyces.
Seite 188 - God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength...
Seite 149 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her ; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Seite 212 - Ferdinando of Spain. But if you shall change Lewis the twelfth for Lewis the eleventh, who lived a little before, then the consort is more perfect. For that Lewis the eleventh, Ferdinando, and Henry, may be esteemed for the tres magi of Kings of those ages. To conclude, if this King did no greater matters, it was long of himself: for what he minded he compassed.
Seite xix - Iche pray you good mother tell our young dame, Whence I am come and what is my name, I cannot come a woing every day. Quoth the nurse, They be lubbers not lovers that so use to say.