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Updated: June 16, 2025
'Rather fat grown-up Bacchus cut the leaves dismounted from the tub, and adopted kersey, eh? not double distilled, but double milled ha! ha! pass the wine. Whether Mr.
The little pest, the moth, had made its appearance in Virginia, for in goods accounted for, are four pairs of moth-eaten hose and a piece of moth-eaten kersey. No firearms are listed in the salable goods on hand but 106 pounds of shot are valued at 12s 6d.
Some appeared in red shirts; some in stiff beaver hats; some were attired in shreds and patches of cloth; and a few wore the soiled garments of citizen gentlemen; but the mass adhered to homespun suits of gray, or "butternut," and the coarse blue kersey common to slaves.
He was dressed as became his rank, plainly and yet well, in a sad-coloured brown kersey coat with silver-plated buttons, knee-breeches of the same, and white woollen stockings, ending in broad-toed black leather shoes cut across with a great steel buckle.
She too carried a basket, but though it was only about half as large as Alice's, it seemed to try her strength much more. "Good den, neighbour!" said Alice, with a pleasant smile. "Good den, Alice. I looked not to find you here. What come you after?" "A piece of kersey for my bettermost gown this summer. What seek you?" "Well, I want some linsey for mine.
The town was famous for its kersey cloths, sometimes called "Dunsters," which were sold under the shade of this structure. Wymondham, in the county of Norfolk, standing on the high road between Norwich and London, has a fine market cross erected in 1617.
"Why, sir," said Evans, "you see the man had a very fair pair of hose on, and a bran-new kersey doublet, very warm-lined; and so, thinking it a pity good clothes should be wasted on such noxious trade, we've just brought them along with us." "Spoiling the Egyptians," said Yeo as comment. "And what have you done with the man?"
What is a vulgarity in Holofernes, and a caricature in Armado, refines itself with him into the expression of a nature truly and inwardly bent upon a form of delicate perfection, and is accompanied by a real insight into the laws which determine what is exquisite in language, and their root in the nature of things. He can appreciate quite the opposite style In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes;
It was a prosperous place, with a great woollen and kersey trade, which gave occupation to as many as seven thousand inhabitants. It stood high, therefore, amongst English boroughs, being inferior only to Bristol, Norwich, Bath, Exeter, York, Worcester, and Nottingham amongst the country towns.
Beside the parson sat a most wretched and meagre- looking old man, with a threadbare hood of coarse kersey upon his head, and buttoned about his neck, while his pinched features, like those of old Daniel, were illuminated by "an eye, Through the last look of dotage still cunning and sly."
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