 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 468 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, wae plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as... | |
 | 1830 - 634 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a procès«, ibe poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree WRS plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. Oil the Flcbtur, an area near the church, lakiv... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...parish, that has not had its witch's thorn, or some such ominously named tree. Among the peasantry of Scotland, the mountain ash, which is termed the rowan... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pages
...were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, hy such a process, the poor hahes would he cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by sucb a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...over, the tree, in the suffering part, was plastered witb loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell... | |
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... that in former times they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process,... 
