10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YOLDRING»
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... or kinsman, or lover, or husband at her elbow, or it may be a brace of stout
fellows with sword and buckler, not so far behind but what they can follow close
— But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring. ** O yes,
I do ...
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A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds
Yite, i. 175. Yoldring, i. 175. Yowley, i. 175. Yellow-billed Cuckoo, i 123. Yellow-
bronzed Warbler, ii. 11o. Yellow-Hammer, i. 175. Black-throated, i. 177. French, i.
177. Yellow-throated Bee-Eater, i. 92. Yellowshanks, iii. 44. Yelper, iii. 30. Yoit, i.
Francis Orpen Morris, William Bernhard Tegetmeier, 1896
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
The eggs arc blue, 'tis a blackbird ; they are spotted white, 'tis a mavis ; they are
marled — they are grey — they are yellow — they are dusky red — they are
composition — they are green ; tis a linty — a shilfa — a robin — a goldy — a
yoldring ...
The eggs are blue, 'tis a blackbird ; they are spotted white, 'tis a mavis; they are
marled—-they are grey—they are yellow—they are dusky red—they are
eomposition——they are green; tis a linty-—a shilfa—a robin—a goldy—a
yoldring—a ...
Christie Deas. Throstle, throstle, do you hear me call ? White the blossom which
in fruit-time sees you thieving from the wall. Yoldring, yoldring, do you hear me
call ? Cheerful my song as your short trill, though like that my tune be small. Birds
...
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The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary: An Exhaustive ...
"A strange superstition that the Yelhno-yoldring, as they most frequently call the
bird, Is on very familiar terms with the Evil One, who is supposed on a May
morning to supply it, among other odd dainties, with half a drop of his own blood,
tne ...
Edward Thomas Roe, Le Roy Hooker, Thomas W. Handford, 1907
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The imperial encyclopaedic dictionary: a new and exhaustive ...
"Astrangosuperstitionthatthe Yellow-yoldring, us th»j trict^ villagn, wiienco yaman
most frequently call the bird, is on very familiar terms -- ' with the Evil One, who is
supposed on a May morning to supply it, among other odd dainties, with half a ...
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A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, ...
TARKE YEDDINGES YELLOW YOLDRING XENODOCHE'UM, instead of XEN-
ODO'CHEUM. XENODOCHI'UM, n. Same a3 Xeno- COCHEUM. XE'NOPS, n. [Gr.
{»«, strange, and «^, the countenance.] A genus of insesso- rial birds of South ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Glo. (K.); Hora: Subsm'vae (1777) 469; Glo.'2 W11. Mon-r011 Cyclo. Agn'c. (1863
); Bnrrron Beauties (1825); Wu.' YEORLING, see Yoldring. YEOS, sb. pl. Irel.
Yeomen. 11'. The Hessians and the yeomen played a part in the rebellion of
1798, ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary: T-Z. Supplement. ...
(1863); Brittom Beauties (1835^; Wil.1 YEORLING, see Yoldring. YEOS, sb. pi.
Irel. Yeomen. Ir. The Hessians and the yeomen played a part in the rebellion of
1798, and had— and have still in history — an evil reputation (P.W.J.) ; In comes
the ...
