The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book ...T. Tegg, 1832 - 1643 pages |
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Page 5
... called Lady Day . Like the snowdrop regarded as the emblem of virgin purity , from its whiteness . The Marygold is so called from a fancied resemblance of the florets of its disk to the rays of glory diffused by artists from the ...
... called Lady Day . Like the snowdrop regarded as the emblem of virgin purity , from its whiteness . The Marygold is so called from a fancied resemblance of the florets of its disk to the rays of glory diffused by artists from the ...
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... called " The New - Year's Gift , presented at court from the Lady Parvula , to the Lord Minimus ( commonly called little Jeffery ) , her ma- jesty's servant - with a letter penned in short hand , wherein is proved that little things are ...
... called " The New - Year's Gift , presented at court from the Lady Parvula , to the Lord Minimus ( commonly called little Jeffery ) , her ma- jesty's servant - with a letter penned in short hand , wherein is proved that little things are ...
Page 35
... called the Mall , and the stick employed , the pall - mall . " If one had a paille - maile , it were good to play in this ally ; for it is of a reasonable good length , straight , and even . " † Again , a stroke with a pail - mail ...
... called the Mall , and the stick employed , the pall - mall . " If one had a paille - maile , it were good to play in this ally ; for it is of a reasonable good length , straight , and even . " † Again , a stroke with a pail - mail ...
Page 49
... called in French Passe dix , was played with dice , is still a mil- itary game , and mentioned by the late Capt . Grose as " A camp game with three dice : and doublets making up ten or more , to pass or win ; any other chances lose ...
... called in French Passe dix , was played with dice , is still a mil- itary game , and mentioned by the late Capt . Grose as " A camp game with three dice : and doublets making up ten or more , to pass or win ; any other chances lose ...
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... called St. Distaff's day by country people , because , the Christmas holidays having ended , good housewives resumed the distaff and their other industrious em- ployments . PLOUGH MONDAY Is the first Monday after Twelfth Day , when ...
... called St. Distaff's day by country people , because , the Christmas holidays having ended , good housewives resumed the distaff and their other industrious em- ployments . PLOUGH MONDAY Is the first Monday after Twelfth Day , when ...
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