Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with his Maid Marian, Sup and browse from horn and can.
The fresh Earth in new leavesdrest And the starry night; Autumn evening, and the morn When the golden mists are born.
With this clue in his hand the student, I hope, will be able to find his way through the labyrinth of facts.
Le Page, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion.
On Superstitions connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery.
Les fetes d'Osiris au mois de Khoiak," in Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et a l'Archeologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes, iii.
He wor sooin drest nice an' comfortable agean an' then he thowt it wor time to goa an' see what had come o' Slinger.
Well I and Prudence follered the crowd down to Grifins worf & them indyans which was only wite men drest up clumb onto a ship there & begun throwing the cargo into Boston harber & I says to a fello what is in them boxes & he says T.
And this way she did bedrest very nice and dainty.
And, truly, I knew that it did be Mine Own Maid; but I never before to have seen Naani drest pretty as a maid.
I was nigh done, she came over and stood before me, and was drest again in the armour-suit, and to look very slender and dainty.
And surely, as they drest me, my spirit to hear the sorrow and sympathy of the Multitudes, and did know that they went downward by millions, unto the Country of Silence.
Now, presently, when Naani found the garments to be proper dry, she gave those to me that were mine, and bid me to turn my back and be drest very speedy.
All drest must to a hair be, else 'tis naught, While of the living bread they have no thought.
Then her people, softly treading, Bore to earth her body, drest In the dress that she was wed in, That her spirit might have rest.
We therefore drest our selves carefully, and Gito willingly taking upon him the part of a servant, as he had hither to done, we bade him put our things together, and follow us to the bath.
The children are drest in almost the same way, tho there is some slight difference between girls and women, and on holidays the costume is more richly ornamented.
As the sun is sinking I perceive the quay on the other side of the Arno filled with a moving crowd of well-drest people walking to and fro and enjoying the beauty of the evening.
Behind the throne a cluster of guards, of the largest size, drest in ancient costumes, taken from the times of chivalry.
Egmont was drest in a crimson damask robe, over which was a Spanish mantle fringed with gold.
Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-drest people in it, who were all walking the same way.
The count was drest in a plain suit of black, and wore a Milanese cap upon his head.
He rose from his couch, and hastily drest himself.
As the day begins to decline, the number of carriages in the streets, filled with gaily drest people attended by servants in livery, increases.
Then I drest myself as neat as I could, and went to Andrew Bradford the printer's.
They ought to be appreciated as dramatic pictures, drest up by the author for his own purpose, and delivering such opinions as he assigns to them--whether he intends them to be refuted by others, or not.
They become red if salted; and, drest with Vinegar and Oil, resemble an Anchovy very much; for they are far beyond an English Herring, when pickled.
However that did not serve her turn, but she had also got his Shooes away, which he had made the Night before, of a drest Buck-Skin.
One day some men came in-to camp drest in an odd garb, such as was worn to hunt in.
Some had spent the most of their lives in boats, some were brought up on farms, some came from the woods, and each group wore the dress that pleased them best, and laughed at those who were not drest the same.
On the morn of the 2d, An-dre drest him-self with great care, in the full suit worn by those who bore his rank in the King's troops.
Blue fish, white fish, and black fish, may be drest in this manner.
Accompany the cod with a plate of sliced beets drest with vinegar.
Cold boiled lobster is very fine cut up and drestin this manner, only substituting for celery, lettuce cut up and mixed with the lobster.
The best way of cooking lamb is to roast it; when drest otherwise it is insipid, and not so good as mutton.
CALF'S HEAD DREST PLAIN Wash the head in warm water.
Make the paste as you do for red deer, course drest through a boulter, a peck and a pottle of this meal will serve for a side or half hanch of a buck.
In the first Place, she made use of the most costly Perfumes; and drest herself to the utmost Advantage to render her Charms as conspicuous as possible; And thus gaily attir'd, demanded a private Audience of the High Priest of the Stars.
We'll put them in silver cages, And send them full-drest to court, And maids of honour and pages Shall turn the poor things to sport.
His companion, the hideous Beresynth, was alsodrest in magical garments.
He found her drest out; and she cried to him merrily: "What!
The lights, the numbers of finely drest people, and then a real stage, and a whole story acted upon it, which I am to believe to be true: can there be anything more curious?
They must both be drest out by this time; so don't let us miss the sight; for doubtless it will be overpoweringly interesting.
Oh, put on all Your richest lookes, drest for this festivall!
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