 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident fore-fathers... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Again« this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefather! always... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...SHOUTHER-FELLOW, a partner or marrow in any work that requires the joint exertions of more than one man. SHREW, a field mouse. A vulgar superstition once prevailed...close up the shrew alive in a hole bored in an ash, elm, or willow-tree ; and afterwards to whip the cattle, thus tormented, with one of the boughs, which... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Cetacea - 1837 - 554 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheepj the suffering animal ia afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...that of the infant whose fate was thus supposed to have been mysteriously connected with it?— ETB afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...that of the infant whose fate was thus supposed to have been mysteriously connected with it?— ETB afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 538 pages
...a nature, that whenaver it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against Ibis accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
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... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. 
