10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «HEDGEBILL»
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hedgebill en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
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The Works of Francis Rabelais
The sense is, you shall be damn'd as much as a hedger damns his blunt
hedgebill; and the opposition of the harp is very much in Rabelais' manner.
Panurge says Friar John shall be damn'd like a blunt hedgebill, and he shall be
sav'd, ...
François Rabelais, Jacob Le Duchat, Mr. Ozell (John), 1854
No pruning-knife or hedgebill could be grasped firmly in the hand if it were
cylindrical ; and unless these instruments are held firmly, it is impossible to cut
obliquely with sufficient precision. The iron of all instruments should be of the
best quality ...
John Loudon, William Robinson, 2009
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The Suburban Horticulturist: Or, An Attempt to Teach the ...
No pruning-knife or hedgebill could be grasped firmly in the hand if it were
cylindrical ; and unless these instruments are held firmly, it is impossible to cut
obliquely with sufficient precision. The iron of all instruments should be of the
best quality ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1842
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An encyclopedia of gardening: comprising the theory and ...
Bill, an edge-tool, at the end of a stale or handle ; if short, it is called a hand-bill,
and when long, a hedging or hedgebill,-— see Iledgebill. Billardiera, apple-berry,
)<cntan. inonog. and piltos- porea?, G. tr. Austral, cliraliers, which thrive well in ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1824
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books
The murder of Crispe was intended, and he was left for dead, being terribly
hacked and disfigured with a hedgebill ; but he recovered. Now the bare intent of
murder is no felony : But to dis- figure, with an intent to disfigure, is made so by
this ...
Sir William Blackstone, Richard Burn, John Williams, 1790
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The complete works of Doctor François Rabelais, abstractor ...
For, by how much the more honourable and execrable they were, so much the
more must I needs have Serpe, or, as the French write it now, Sarpa, is a
bedgebill, and une rnalz szrpe, a bad or blunt hedgebill. The sense is, you sball
be ...
François Rabelais, Jacob Le Duchat, James Lewis May, 1927
TlGER DANCER began sluggishly and raced far back throughout. Scratched—
06427 Ergo, 115. Overweight— Hedgebill, 2 pounds; Tiger Dancer, 1. SIXTH
RACE 6 FURLONGS. (Signator, Jan. 19, 1943—1:10%— 5— 116.) Purse $2,000
.
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Quentin Durward: In Three Volumes
Every yard of this ground, excepting the path which we now occupy, is rendered
dangerous, and well nigh impracticable, by snares and traps, armed with scythe-
blades, which shred off the unwary passenger's limb as sheerly as a hedgebill ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Then Massaccio (such was the nameof the peasant) took a hedgebill which hung
at his girdle, and cutting a. branch of a tree strong enough to bear a man,-“ Listen,
huntsman,” said he, “ to what_l am oing to say to you. I Will let own this branch ...
10
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
... Icel. heggr, a kind oftree used inhedges; cf. hagi,a haw(see Icel. Dict. p. 774); G
.hecke.Der. hedge, verb (Prompt. Parv. p. 232), hedgebill, hedgeborn, 1Hen. VI,iv
.1.43; hedgehog, Temp. ii. 2. 10; hedgepig, Macb.iv. 1.2; hedgepriest. L. L. L. v.
