 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 pages
...houses 48 distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 pages
...in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 pages
...but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains,...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen — both men and women — perpetually drunk, cursing,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country-weddings, markets, burials, and the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and... | |
 | 1882 - 328 pages
...but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains,...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | 1882 - 308 pages
...but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains,...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 446 pages
...Saltoun, writing upon the curse and terrorism of mendicancy, complains that many thousands of beggars ' meet together in the mountains, where they feast and...days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1884 - 436 pages
...died, or that ever they were baptized. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1884 - 440 pages
...died, or that ever they were baptized. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Andrew Edgar - 1886 - 436 pages
...daughters, mothers with sons, and brothers with sisters. " In ycarsof plenty many thousands meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many...at country' weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
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... a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... 
