 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 426 pages
...to sacrifice their rump. On Iiudgate-hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied to it, and another basting of it. Indeed, it was past...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the other side.' — PEPYS' Diary. 1690. all spurs. Horses trained thus to race at the Carnival at Rome.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 394 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side. Thence home and sent my letters to the post-house in London, and my wife and I went out... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 264 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." This burning of the Rump meant that the attempt of a miserable minority to pose as King,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright - 1892 - 250 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep still on the further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequers at Charing Cross, where Chetwind... | |
 | 1895 - 670 pages
...thirty-one fires. In the Strand itself there was the same blaze of rejoicing. On Ludgate Hill, he says, " at one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane on fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." The same sort of thing went on... | |
 | 1895 - 872 pages
...thirty-one fires. In the Strand itself there was the same blaze of rejoicing On Ludgate Hill, he says, "at one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane on fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." The same sort of thing went on... | |
 | Max John Christian Meiklejohn - 1898 - 292 pages
...rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of a spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it. At one end of the street you would think there...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side.' 1 8. The nation gave itself over to rejoicing, for men were sick of the austere solemnity... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1903 - 584 pages
...their knives, when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...you would think there was a whole lane of fire and smoke, so hot that we were fain to keep on the other side. . . . Everybody now drinks the King's health... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." Charles and his court were at Brussels when the news reached them of these events in... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1904 - 458 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep still on the further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequers at Charing Cross, where Chetwind... | |
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... seven or eight ; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their... 
