 | Sir Arthur Mitchell - 1881 - 386 pages
...have no tables, but eat their meat upon a bundle of grass." " At Cork, I have seen with these eyes young maids stark naked, grinding of corn with certain stones to make cakes thereof." I give these quotations merely to show that, though I have taken my illustrations from Scotland, which... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Archaeology - 1890 - 562 pages
...at the ships they saw, and explained that in their own country they knew nothing of these things. 1 A traveller among people thus described is exactly...statement, that " I have seen [them] with these eyes". 2 An Italian priest travelling in Armagh is reported to have made a Latin distich upon the nakedness... | |
 | Caesar Litton Falkiner - Ireland - 1904 - 512 pages
...bread, and drink not English beer made of malt and hops, but ale. At Cork I have seen with these eyes young maids, stark naked, grinding of corn with certain stones to make cakes thereof, and striking off into the tub of meal such reliques thereof as stuck on their belly, thighs, and more... | |
 | Leslie Clarkson, Margaret Crawford - History - 2001 - 338 pages
...not English beer made of malt and hops, but ale. At Cork I have seen with these eyes young maides, stark naked, grinding of corn with certain stones to make cakes thereof, and striking off into the tub of meal such reliques therof as stuck on their belly, thighs, and more... | |
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At Cork I have seen with these eyes young maids, stark naked, grinding of corn with certain stones to make cakes thereof... 