If we are on the right track, there was a time when the thegns of the shire must have regarded their borough haws rather as a burden than as a source of revenue.
They discharge it by keeping haws in the borough and burgesses in those haws[747].
King Edmund conveyed to his thegn Æthelweard an estate of seven hides at Tistead in Hampshire and therewith the haws within the burg of Winchester that belonged to those seven hides[751].
For theirhaws they have sometimes been paying him small rents.
When the Bishop of Worcester loaned out lands to his thegns, the lands carried with them haws in the 'port' of Worcester[752].
But already the shire thegns have been letting their haws at a rent and probably have been letting them to craftsmen and traders.
By the roadside too were many berries of bright hues; the glowing red of haws and hips, the amber of the pyracanthus, the rose tints of the spindle-wood.
The pyracanthus bushes in the hedge yield their clusters of bright yellow berries, mingled with more glowing hues of red from haws and glossy hips.
Red haws have been recorded as nest trees of horned owls, yellow-billed cuckoos, cardinals, and fox squirrels.
Where there are haws in denser woods, they are usually large and old; seemingly they are survivors from a time when the woods were more open.
You see it on cultivated plums, grapes, and apples, but never in any such perfection as on moonseed and black haws in the woods.
Red haws on the hawthorn and hips on the briar sprinkled the hedge with bright spots of colour.
But when the acorns and the berries be ripe, the pheasants comes out along the hedges after 'em, and gets up at the haws and such like.
And he might have put the grey embers of a fire gone out, and the twisted stem of a hawthorn bush with red haws above.
The lads use a long 'gicks' cut between the joints as a tube to blow haws or peggles at the girls.
Some growers spread the haws in shallow piles in the fall, and allow them to decay, so that most of the pulp is removed before they are stratified.
But of the haws there are thirteen less; for the castle eight have been destroyed, and the moneyer has one quit so long as he makes money.
Newnham, and also one acre on which there are 6 hawsrendering 18d.
The four thousand pounds might be safely invested somewhere, and life at The Haws would go on as usual.
No one less likely than the ladies at The Haws to make trouble in such a matter.
He would rather not have gone down to The Haws that Christmastide, but feared that his failure to do so might seem strange.
A great hawthorn bush grows on the bank; in spring, white with May; in autumn, red with haws or peggles.
So with the red haws around and the rustling leaves it is easy to recall the flowers.
Though so big, and to all appearance tempting to birds, none have yet been eaten; and, indeed, haws seem to be resorted to only as a change unless severe weather compels.
But now in autumn thehaws are red on the thorn, the swallows are few as they were in the earliest spring; the sedge-birds have flown, and the redwings will soon be here.
Haws are very plentiful this year (1881), and exceptionally large, many fully double the size commonly seen.
And the gyih-haws were loaded with their belongings, and stood up beside the ranks.
And during this time the women are carrying wood in their giyh-haws to the dancing place.
And as soon as he laughed the gyih-haws stopped walking, and ever since they have never walked, and the women have been obliged to carry them.
Instead of peas such a series of units could be made by stringing cranberries or rose-haws on a waxed thread.
Choke Cheres & red haws not an animal of any kind to be seen and only the track of a Bear) below this Creek the lofty Pine is thick in the bottom hill Sides on the mountains & up the runs.
A mule caravan of Haws came in from the north and rendered the otherwise peaceful air hideous with their loud, hoarse talking.
They were at dinner, every man, When great Montrose upon them came; A second battle then began 35 Upon the haws of Cromdale.
The Gordons boldly did advance, The Fraziers [fought] with sword and lance, The Grahams they made their heads to dance, 55 Upon the haws of Cromdale.
We were in bed, sir, every man, When the English host upon us came; 10 A bloody battle then began Upon the haws of Cromdale.
The English horse they were so rude, They bath'd their hoofs in highland blood, But our brave clans they boldly stood, 15 Upon the haws of Cromdale.
For I will o'er the hills this day, And view the haws of Cromdale.
You see they are almost naked--I found them plucking haws and sloes, in order to appease their hunger.
Mammy's gone to bed sick and sulky; my two sisters be crying at hoam vor vood; and Dick and I be come hither to pick haws and bullies.
I'm delighted, Charles, if my little hips andhaws meet with your approval.
Miss Haws accepted occasional invitations for her pupils, marshalling them in a bevy, herself robed in pea-green silk, like an ancient mermaid: she said that it gave them dignity.
The haws are ripe in autumn and the ivy berries in spring, so that the bastions yield a double crop.
I understand that an arrangement has been entered into by which the Haws are to be suppressed by the combined action of the French and Siamese.
He was wounded, however, shortly after making his attack upon their position, and the Haws eventually escaped.
The May has bloomed and withered and the haws are clinging red, The winter winds are talking in the dead ranks of the trees; And still she tells of daddy as she tucks each tot in bed-- God pity all dear women who have husbands over seas!
Dead Days The haws cling to the thorn, Shrivelled and red; The limbs long dead Clutch at a leaf long torn-- It taps all day on the spikes As the spume licks over the dikes.
Ivy and privet dark as night, I weave with hips and haws a cheerful show, And holly for a beauty and delight, And milky mistletoe.
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