United States or Jordan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Scrips, wallets, bags, staves, dogs and crutches, the whole mendicant fraternity with all their baggage are fast hasting out of the purlieus of this eleventh persecution."
Speculations in scrips and shares of foreign loans and new companies, to a fabulous amount. Recoil of the speculations, run upon the banks, seventy banks stop, a drain of gold exhausts the bullion of the Bank. Depression of trade, government advances Exchequer bills to the Bank. A run for gold, bullion in the Bank again alarmingly reduced. Jackson vs.
Some of them had swords; a greater number flourished spears and javelins; though the weapons of the many were staves and knotted clubs, and slings, for which latter selected stones were stored in scrips, and sometimes in sacks improvised from the foreskirts of their dirty tunics.
Father wont let me play marbles in ernest. it aint enny fun dreening a feller and then giving them back. i bet father didnt when he was a boy. Mar. 19. Scott Briggam brought my squirrel today and i paid him 35 cents, 3 ten cents scrips and five cents. i have got it in a bird cage.
Neither, when they return from their, missions, or are idle at home, are they to receive any thing, but to use their own scrips and purses, and clothes.
We'll be the Canterbury Pilgrims. People used to go pilgrimages to make themselves good. 'With peas in their shoes, the Dentist said. 'It's in a piece of poetry only the man boiled his peas which is quite unfair. 'Oh, yes, said H. O., 'and cocked hats. 'Not cocked cockled' it was Alice who said this. 'And they had staffs and scrips, and they told each other tales. We might as well.
We did not take Martha, because bull-dogs do not like walks. Remember this if you ever have one of those valuable animals. When we were all ready, with our big hats and cockle-shells, and our staves and our tape sandals, the pilgrims looked very nice. 'Only we haven't any scrips, Dora said. 'What is a scrip? 'I think it's something to read. A roll of parchment or something.
As they went bareheaded habitually, their hair stood out in thick, coarse, sunburnt shocks; their beard covered their throats, and fell in mats down the breast; mantles of the skin of kids and lambs, with the fleece on, wrapped them from neck to knee, leaving the arms exposed; broad belts girthed the rude garments to their waists; their sandals were of the coarsest quality; from their right shoulders hung scrips containing food and selected stones for slings, with which they were armed; on the ground near each one lay his crook, a symbol of his calling and a weapon of offence.
The Government had promised to take the matter into consideration. The Government had replied to one petition by telegram, conceding the old survey. This was an important concession. At Batoche three scrips had been issued, and at Duck Lake forty were given. The witness never liked talking with the prisoner on religion or politics.
The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation your only modern Alcides' club to rid the time of its abuses is uplift with many-handed sway to extirpate the last fluttering tatters of the bugbear MENDICITY from the metropolis. Scrips, wallets, bags staves, dogs, and crutches the whole mendicant fraternity with all their baggage are fast posting out of the purlieus of this eleventh persecution.
Word Of The Day