 | Sir Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1814 - 380 pages
...proceed to any operation which would assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deasil, both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1814 - 390 pages
...proceed to any operation which would assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the/ sun. This, which was called making the deasil, both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1814 - 386 pages
...proceed to any operation which would assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deasil, both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 308 pages
...proceed to any operation which would assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deasil, both the leach and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...the Scottish isles, the vulgar never come to the ancient sacrificing and fire-hallowing cairns, but they walk three times round them, from east to west,...sanctified tour, or round by the south, is called deiscal, from deas er dess, " the right hand," and soil or sul, " the sun ;" the right hand being ever... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Cornwall - 1824 - 766 pages
...the Scottish Isles, the vulgar never come to the ancient sacrificing, and fire hallowing karnes; but they walk three times round them, from east to west, according to the course of the sun." Some vestiges of this custom still exist among the vulgar in Cornwall, it being deemed unlucky when... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 pages
...proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deasil,-^ both the leech and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 880 pages
...proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deatttjt both the leech and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
 | Robert Weaver - 1840 - 234 pages
...respect for the Druids' houses, and never come to the ancient sacrificing and fire-hallowing carns, but they walk three times round them from east to west, according to the course of the sun." He speaks of a remarkable one in the island of Kilda, having a room capable of containing nine persons,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the deasil^t both the leech and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter... | |
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He observed great ceremony in approaching Edward ; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course... 
