| Thomas Wright - 1851 - 370 pages
...from one of its fits, and it no sooner saw her than it began to cry out, pointing to mother Samwell, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black thrumbed cap, for I cannot abide to look at her ?" Little attention was paid to... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 440 pages
...both looking on. Soon after Mother Samuel entered the child grew worse, and cried, pointing at her, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? take off her black thrumb cap, for I cannot abide to look at her." The child's mother, thinking want... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 442 pages
...both looking on. Soon after Mother Samuel entered the child grew worse, and cried, pointing at her, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? take off her black thrumb cap, for I cannot abide to look at her." The child's mother, thinking want... | |
| Howard Williams - 1865 - 302 pages
...of her fits. The girl no sooner noticed her than she began to cry out, pointing to the old woman, ' Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black-thumbed cap, for I cannot abide to look at her.' The illness becoming worse, they... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 726 pages
...observing it, said to her grandmother, who was present, " Grandmother, looke where the old witch sitteth : did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black thrumbed cap, for 1 cannot abide to looke on her." This foolish fancy of a child,... | |
| 1883 - 332 pages
...to see her as a kind of curiosity — and stepping up into the chimney-side, sat down by her, Jane being held in another woman's arms by the fire. Suddenly...dismally, as those that saw her remembered very well." As well she might, poor old soul ; for she must have known that Mrs. Jane's light speech would, in... | |
| W. H. Bernard Saunders - 1888 - 346 pages
...childe soon observed, and pointing at her exclaimed: 'Grandmother, look where the olde witch sittethe : did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her blacke thrumb'd cap, for I cannot abide to look at her.' The child afterwards became... | |
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