 | John Leyden, James Morton - 1819 - 524 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their task-master...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - 1819 - 528 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their task-master...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 508 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their task-master...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Hal en i > is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined... | |
 | Scott - 1821 - 516 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their task-master to be allowed to mingle a few handtnU of barley-chaff with the sand. On his refusal, they were forced to leave untwisted the ropes... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 Seiten
...to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster to be allowed tomingleafewhandfuls of barley-chaff with the sand. On his refusal, they...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1845 - 604 Seiten
...forced to leave untwisted the ropes which they had shaped. Much is the traditionary hy io tin-Mis cf the vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. " Rtdcap IE a popular appellation of that class of Kplrits which haunt old castk'a. Every ruined tower... | |
 | Boys - 1852 - 466 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster to be allowed to mingle a few handfulls of barley-chaf with the sand. On his refusal, they were forced to leave untwisted the ropes... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 464 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea." LORD Sotri.is lie sat in Hermitage Castle, And beside him Old ttedcap sly ; — Now, tell me, them... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower... | |
 | John Leyden - 1875 - 950 Seiten
...to find some interminable employment. Upon discovering the futility of their attempts to accomplish the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster...vermicular ridges of the sand on the shore of the sea. Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower... | |
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the work assigned, they petitioned their taskmaster to be allowed to mingle a few handfuls of barley-chaff with the sand. On his refusal, they were forced to leave untwisted the ropes which they had shaped. Such is the traditionary hypothesis of the vermicular... 
