 | John MacCulloch - 1824 - 502 דפים
...the ploughed land seems as if it bad been sown with feathers, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...thing smells of feathers, and the smell pursued us all over the islands ; for the Captain had concealed a sack full in the cabin. I could not leave St.... | |
 | 1831 - 446 דפים
...the ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhahitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skjn1 every thing smells of feathers ; and the smell pursued us over all the islands, for the Captain... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - 1842 - 750 דפים
...sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; everything smells of feathers." SECTION IX. ROUTE SIXTH. INVERNESS TO TAIN, GOLSPIE, WICK, THURSO,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 דפים
...full, to form the bed Of luxury. And here a while the muse, had been sown with feathers." He adds, " the women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of gannet's skin." It is, consequently, of great importance to the inhabitants of St. Kilda, to procure... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - 362 דפים
...the ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...the islands, for the Captain had a sackful in the cabin."—Macculloch. APPENDIX, No. X.—P. 258. Power of water. THE isle of Eshaness, or Northmaven,... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1853 - 368 דפים
...the ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gaunet's skin; even-thing mells of feathers; and the smell pursued us over all the islands, for he... | |
 | British birds - 1857 - 324 דפים
...land seems as if it had been sown with feathers ; and the inhabitants look as if they had all been tarred and feathered, for their hair is full of feathers,...Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; everything smells of feathers ; and the smell pursued us all over the islands, for the captain had... | |
 | George Seton - 1878 - 386 דפים
...the ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; everything smells of feathers, and the smell pursued us all over the islands —for the captain had... | |
 | 1883 - 564 דפים
...sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full...covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercurys, for their shoes are made of gannet's skin. Everything smells of feathers." Besides all the... | |
 | 1884 - 502 דפים
...ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers ; and the inhabitants look as if they had been tarred and feathered, for their hair is full of feathers,...like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of gaunet skin. Everything smells of feathers." Take St Kilda for all in all, the study of its position... | |
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... them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved with feathers, the very dunghills are made of feathers, the ploughed land seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their... 
