The Every-day Book and Table Book; Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times: Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and DiversionsPub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 57
... manner the pieces are allotted to the company . If the bean be found in the piece for the " bon Dieu , " the king is chosen by draw- ing long or short straws . Whoever gets the bean chooses the king or queen , according as it happens to ...
... manner the pieces are allotted to the company . If the bean be found in the piece for the " bon Dieu , " the king is chosen by draw- ing long or short straws . Whoever gets the bean chooses the king or queen , according as it happens to ...
Page 95
... manner , and without the least hurt . Forty children were killed . In some houses large companies were assembled , and in one , a newly married couple , from a distance , had met a numerous party of their friends . One person who was ...
... manner , and without the least hurt . Forty children were killed . In some houses large companies were assembled , and in one , a newly married couple , from a distance , had met a numerous party of their friends . One person who was ...
Page 101
... manner as to escape detection . He dug a kind of a cave in his wine - cellar , which he made so large and deep , that he used to go down to it with a ladder ; at the entrance of it was a door with a spring lock on it , which on shutting ...
... manner as to escape detection . He dug a kind of a cave in his wine - cellar , which he made so large and deep , that he used to go down to it with a ladder ; at the entrance of it was a door with a spring lock on it , which on shutting ...
Page 145
... manner : - The prisoner being brought to the scaffold by the bailiff , the axe was drawn up by a pulley , and fastened with a pin to the " The bailiff , the side of the scaffold . jurors , and the minister chosen by the prisoner , being ...
... manner : - The prisoner being brought to the scaffold by the bailiff , the axe was drawn up by a pulley , and fastened with a pin to the " The bailiff , the side of the scaffold . jurors , and the minister chosen by the prisoner , being ...
Page 155
... manner , the lord chancellor , being first , approached the first serjeant in the rank , and shook hands with him , saying , " How d'ye do , brother ? I wish you a good term ; " where- upon the serjeant bowed and thanked his lordship ...
... manner , the lord chancellor , being first , approached the first serjeant in the rank , and shook hands with him , saying , " How d'ye do , brother ? I wish you a good term ; " where- upon the serjeant bowed and thanked his lordship ...
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