 | Teacher - 1879 - 582 páginas
...well lodged as the lord of the town, who, peradventure, lay seldom on a bed of down or whole feathers. As for Servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' Wherever... | |
 | Augustus Jessopp - 1879 - 364 páginas
...contented. Pillows were thought mete only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any shete above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies, to keepe them from the pricking strawes, that ranne oft thorow the canvas and razed their hardened hides."... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 494 páginas
...thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it wag well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies...oft through the canvass, and razed their hardened hydes. The third thing they tell of is, the exchange of treene platers (so called, I suppose, from... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 508 páginas
...under their heads instead of a bolster.' .... As for servants, if they had any sheet atwve them it wns well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass and rased their hardened hides. The third-thing they... | |
 | Georgiana Hill - 1896 - 384 páginas
...regular beds and bedding for " menials '* in good houses — " As for servants if they had any shete above them it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ranne off thorow the canvas and razed their hardened hides." * * A Jessop, "... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 páginas
...under coverlets made of dogswaine, and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster." ... As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass and rased their hardened Houses were built upon improved... | |
 | Marquise de Fontenoy (pseud.) - 1897 - 334 páginas
...of straw covered by a sheet, with a good round log I instead of a pillow. An old chronicler says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran through the canvas of the pallet, and raised their hardened hides." Thes improvements... | |
 | Jean Mary Stone - 1904 - 534 páginas
...thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented. Pillows were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas and raced their hardened hides." 1 On the other hand... | |
 | N. Hudson Moore - 1906 - 518 páginas
...some parts of Bedfordshire, and elsewhere, further off from our southern parts. Pillows, (they said) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass of the pallett and rased their hardened hides." I... | |
 | Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - 1910 - 420 páginas
...much amended as yet in some parts of Bedfordshire, and elsewhere, further off from our southern parts. Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. The third... | |
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Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased... 
