 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoyning, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three-pence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I shall satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses." The following... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...feathers blacke and white, •potted in such a manner as is our magpie, called in some place* a pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose : which place aforesaid, and those part« adjoyning do so much abound therewith, that one of the but it bought for threepence. For... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Architecture - 1825 - 342 pages
...than a mallard, lesser than a goose, which the people of — ' " Lucy put her finger over the place. '"Call by no other name than a tree goose; which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound with, that one of the best is bought for threepence.' " " I never heard... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 332 pages
...a mallard, lesser than a goose, which the people of — ' " Lucy put her finger over the place. " ' Call by no other name than a tree goose ; which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound with, that one of the best is bought for threepence.' " " I never heard... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoyning, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I will satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses." The following... | |
 | James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1833 - 422 pages
...aforesaid, and of all those places adjoyning, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three-pence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repaire to me, and I shall satisfy them by the testimony of good witnesses *." Bernacle Goose-Tree,... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoining, do so much abound therewith ; that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I will satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses."1 Even of late... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I will satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses." Now the whole... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 420 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I will satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses." Now the whole... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...place aforesaid, and all those places adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair to me, and I will satisfy them by the testimonies of good witnesses." Now the whole... | |
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Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose... 
