 ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.  The Natural History of Selborne - Page 336by Gilbert White - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...are immediately to relieve the pains which a beast suffers from: the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse...and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Again« this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefather! always kept... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so banefid and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1835 - 934 pages
...part affected. for il la supposcd that a shrewmouse is u! so baneful and deletcrious a naturc, tliat wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, llie sufiering animal is afJlicled wilh cruel anguish , aud threatened with the lofs of the use of... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse...be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is 1 Much nearer to the metropolis than Selborne, and in days later than those alluded to by White, the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse...be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is 1 Much nearer to the metropolis than Selbome, and in days later than those alluded to by White, the... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Cetacea - 1837 - 554 pages
...suffers from the running of a Shrew Mouse over the part affected ; for it is supposed that a Shrew Mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheepj the suffering animal ia afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 526 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of ii shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that whensver it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicied with... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 538 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running ol & s'ireir-mouse over the part affected: for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that whenaver it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with... | |
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