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Cal. St. P., Dom., 1623-1625, 474, 485, 497. See Potts, O 3 verso. See Hist. MSS. Comm. North Riding Record Soc., Quarter Sessions Records, I, 58. "... neither had they authoritie to compell her to goe without a Constable." Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,674, fol. 148. This is a brief description of "how to discover a witch." It recommends the water ordeal and cites the case of Mr.

In brief, my friend for you ARE my friend and the best of all possible good fellows I have made up my mind to conquer those that have risen against me to break through the ranks of pedantic and pre-conceived opinions and to climb the heights of fame, regardless of the little popular pipers of tame verso that obstruct my path and blow their tin whistles in the public ears to drown, if possible, my song.

No suitable versification for Comedy has yet been invented in Italy. The verso sciolto, it is well known, does not answer; it is not sufficiently familiar. The verse of twelve syllables, with a sdrucciolo termination selected by Ariosto, is much better, resembling the trimeter of the ancients, but is still somewhat monotonous. It has been, however, but little cultivated.

"Yes," answered the elder man, affecting an urbane manner. "Is the Count at home?" "I do not think so," returned the Neapolitan. "But I will see. Come in, gentlemen. He will not be long sempre verso quest'ora he always comes home about this time." "Thank you," said the detective. "If you will allow us to wait " "Altro what? Should I leave the padrone's friends on the stairs?

It is shameful vacillation I love a long word What's the other word I was trying for? still longer I mean, tergiversation! it comes from tergum and verso, and means turning the back. It is rude to turn your back on ladies." Piers would have liked to fall at her feet, in his voiceless gratitude.

But the catastrophe that was to hurl him irretrievably from the eminence to which in three short years he had climbed was approaching with stealthy, relentless foot, and was even now upon him. "Cesar Borgia che era della gente Per armi e per virtu tenuto un sole, Mancar dovendo ando dove andar sole Phebo, verso la sera, al Occidente. "Girolamo Casio Epitaffi."

Leo Africanus, gives the subjoined account of Ghadames: GADEMES, ABITAZIONE. Gademes è una grande abitazione, dove sono molti castelli e popolosi casali, discosti dal mare Mediterraneo, verso mezzogiorno, circa a trecento miglia.

The Witches of Northamptonshire, ... A 4. Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie ..., X 4 verso. Ibid., 20. One notable instance must be mentioned.

Ibid.: "Sundry other witches appeared to him.... Hee heard many of them railing at Jane Lucas, laying the fault on her that they were thus accused." There was practically no spectral evidence in the Lancashire cases. Lister on his death-bed had cried out against Jennet Preston, and John Law was tormented with a vision of Alizon Device "both day and night"; Potts, Y 2 verso.

This was the VERSO of our life in Durrisdeer that day; but on the RECTO all appeared quite settled, as of a family at home in its paternal seat; and what perturbation may have been observable, the Master would set down to the blow of his unlooked-for coming, and the fear he was accustomed to inspire.