10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WISKET»
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Autobiography of Thomas Wright, of Birkenshaw ... 1736-1797, ...
My old aunt had procured a large basket, or wisket* (as she called it), which she
filled with dels and china ware, and carried on her arm, with no small fatigue, to
Birkenshaw. We set off together on foot on the afternoon of * A Wisket, Mr.
Holroyd ...
2
The common objects of the country. [2 variant issues].
He used to offer the young urchins of the neighbourhood a reward for bringing
lamperns, at the rate of a halfpenny per wisket full. A wisket, I may observe, is a
kind of shallow basket, made of very broad strips of willow, and a wisket filled
with ...
3
Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Circle
As George Selwyn was in Paris at the time John Wisket, Lord Harrington's porter,
was hanged, particulars of the scene were forwarded to him by the Hon. Henry St
. John, a man of wit and pleasure, brother of the second Viscount Bolingbroke, ...
Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy,
1906
4
Autobiography of Thomas Wright, of Birkenshaw, in the county ...
My old aunt had procured a large basket, or wisket* (as she called it), which she
filled with delf and china ware, and carried on her arm, with no small fatigue, to
Birkenshaw. We set off together on foot on the afternoon of a winter's day, and by
...
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Survey English Dialects
We Sf Co D. => basket, bath, clothes- flask, clothes-flasket, clothes-skep, clothes-
swill, clothes-wisket, creel, flask, flasket, linen-basket, maund, skep => skip, skip,
swill, voider, wash- basket, washing-basket, wicker-basket, wisket, wooden tub; ...
6
The fatal interview [of W. Corder with M. Marten]; or The ...
In a twig wisket, or reticule as now called, Maria had her requisite wardrobe ; and
Corder offered to carry this the remaining part of the distance. Not the weight of
the wisket, but the unaccountable behaviour of Corder, oppressed her drooping ...
Isaac Hurlstone, William Corder,
1835
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Autobiography of Thomas Wright: of Birkenshaw, in the county ...
My old aunt had procured a large basket, or wisket* (as she called it), which she
filled with dels and china ware, and carried on her arm, with no small fatigue, to
Birkenshaw. We set oft" together on foot on the afternoon of * A JViJket, Mr.
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Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar
We Sf Co D. => basket, bath, clothes- flask, clothes-flasket, clothes-skep, clothes-
swill, clothes-wisket, creel, flask, flasket, linen-basket, maund, skep => skip, skip,
swill, voider, wash- basket, washing-basket, wicker-basket, wisket, wooden tub; ...
Clive Upton, David Parry, John David Allison Widdowson,
1994
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A new and accurate description of all the direct and ...
Wakefield - - 5 182 to Ltedt 9 m.\ 1. to Hud- d'nficU 1 j m., and Halifax 1 6 m. EaU
Ardslcy - - Tingley - - - - Near Bruncliff, r. to Lad l\ *.; I. to Huddrrtfe/d ro *., ATif"
Halifax 10 «. Bruncliff - - Advvalton - - - 1 iooi Wisket Hill - Dudley Hill - 1. to Ot/ey
ro ...
10
What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the ...
In 1765 Lord Harrington's porter, John Wisket, who helped thieves to rob his
master's house, went to the gallows with a white cockade in his hat, as a
profession of innocence. George Selwyn, who hated to miss an execution,
missed this one, ...