Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1851
 

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Seite 96 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.
Seite 90 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Seite 94 - Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre Or breke it at a renning with his heed...
Seite 255 - T^HE ROMAN WALL: an Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account •*• of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, deduced from numerous personal surveys.
Seite 255 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Seite 92 - ... with their hands, and thrash it with their feet, and thus their hands and feet are covered with a dry cracked skin, as thick as the shell of a tortoise. Not a tree, or stick, or bough, is to be found to cover the unfortunates with its shade, or to refresh their sight. At night they turn the handmill, and weep, singing lamentations for the dead while they grind their wheat.
Seite 118 - The principal part of the handle is inlaid with black and yellow wood, banded with silver ; and the shield at the top of the blade, a solid piece of the same metal, curiously wrought, but not much larger in circumference than a crown piece. The knife and fork must necessarily be sheathed first, which the shield covers, consequently the dagger must be drawn first.
Seite 210 - Aelfgar the earl, Leofric the earl's son, was outlawed without any kind of guilt; and he went then to Ireland, and there procured himself a fleet, which was of eighteen ships, besides his own: and they went then to Wales, to king Griffin,' with that force: and he received him into his protection. And then, with the Irishmen and with Welshmen, they gathered a great force: and Ralph the earl gathered a great force on the other hand at Hereford-port. And they sought them out there: but before there...
Seite 97 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.
Seite 285 - The announcement of the DIVINE NAME is the first event traditionally preserved; and it occurred as follows: GOD, in vocalising his NAME said '"', and with the Word, all worlds and animations sprang co-instantaneously to being and life from their nonexistence : shouting in extacy of joy, "^ and thus repeating the name of the DEITY.

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