10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPSITTING»
Discover the use of
upsitting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
upsitting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sammlung: The Text Formed a New Collation of the Early ...
Farewell, my lord : I was entreated to invite your lordship to a lady's upsitting '.
Gend. Oh, my ears ! [Exeunt VALORE, LAZARILLO, and Boy.] Why, madam, will
not you follow your brother? you are waited for by great men; he'll bring you to '
em '.
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alexander Dyce, 1843
2
The works of Beaumont & Fletcher: the text formed from a new ...
270 unvalued v. 215, vi. 52 unwappered xi. 433 unworded x. 321 upper stage iv.
307, vi. 270, xi. 292 , Upright-lord ix. 19 j uprisings x. 116 (See upsitting) upsey-
Dutch ix. 44 upsey-English ix. 80 upsitting i. 37 (See INDEX TO THE NOTES.
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alexander Dyce, 1846
3
The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Volume 1) ~ Paperbound
Farewell, my lord : I was entreated to invite your lordship to a lady's upsitting s.
Gond. Oh, my ears ! [Exeunt Valore, Lazarillo, emrfBoy.] Why, madam, will not
you follow your brother? you are waited for by great men ; he'll bring you to 'em *.
Ori.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
4
Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity
The Boer scenes, such as Tant' Sannie's "upsitting," and the Boer characters
involved in these scenes stand outside the narrative and generally serve as
comic subplots to the tragedies of Lyndall, Waldo, and Em. Even as Schreiner
introduces ...
5
The Story of an African Farm
V. Tant' Sannie Holds an Upsitting, and Gregory Writes a Letter IT was just after
sunset, and Lyndall had not yet returned from her first driving lesson, when the
lean colored woman standing at the corner of the house to enjoy the evening ...
6
The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow
And were it not that I find great upsitting in the remnant themselves, in their
haunting these solemnities, joined with it, I would reckon this one branch of our
reformation. But it's matter, &My, of a sorrowful remark, that gradually, and in
proportion ...
Robert Wodrow, Thomas M'Crie, 1842
7
The Correspondence of Robert Wodrow
And were it not that I find great upsitting in the remnant themselves, in their
haunting these solemnities, joined with it, I would reckon this one branch of our
reformation. But it's matter, (Sthly, of a sorrowful remark, that gradually, and in ...
8
The Making of Man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770
Then came her "upsitting", when the bed-linen was changed; after this she
remained in her room for a further week or 10 days, not confined to bed but still
resting. In the third and final stage of lying-in, she moved about the house, but did
not ...
9
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for ...
... my fault and owne my condemnation, desiring the breathings of Friends of truth
may be to God for my return. " DANIEL B---.” “ I likewise acknowledge my going
along to the aforesaid fcast or Upsitting with my Husband has brought trouble, ...
10
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Upsitting, subs. (old).—The sitting upof a womanto see her friends afterher
confinement ; thefeast held on suchan occasion. 1607. Dekker, Westward Hoe.
The jest shall be a stock to maintain usandour pewfellows in laughing at
christenings, ...
