| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 sivua
...scour their candlesticks, some to rub their boots, some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not...ships full, to the wondering of foreign nations." The Anglo-Saxon Scop and Gleeman. — Our earliest poetry was made current and kept fresh in memory... | |
| James Joseph Walsh - 1914 - 728 sivua
...superstitions mansions reserved of those library books . . . some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some over sea to the book-binders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full to the wondering of... | |
| Thomas Slater - 1915 - 440 sivua
...reserving of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots, some they sold to the grocers...bookbinders; not in small numbers, but at times whole shipfuls, to the wondering of foreign nations. And after he also addeth, "I know a merchantman, which... | |
| 1916 - 880 sivua
...those superstitious mansions reserved of those library books some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of... | |
| John Stephen Vaughan - 1922 - 304 sivua
...their 1 Ecclesiastical History, ii., 1. iii., p. 166. candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; and some they sold to the grocers and soapsellers ; and...whole ships full, to the wondering of foreign nations "-1 Sometimes small fragments were left behind by these marauders, and have come down to our time,... | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio, John Lydgate - 1927 - 556 sivua
...to rub their boots; some they sold to thé grocers and soap-sellers; some they sent over sea to thé bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full, to thé wondering of thé foreign nations. Yea, thé universities of this realm are not ail clear of this... | |
| Tse-Chien Tai - 1925 - 276 sivua
...superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some ... to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they sold to the grocers...they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations. ... I judge this to... | |
| Reginald Leslie Hine - 1927 - 456 sivua
...part of the bargain and booty, reserving of those books some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the seas to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole shipfulls, to the wondering of... | |
| Reginald Leslie Hine - 1927 - 466 sivua
...part of the bargain and booty, reserving of those books some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the seas to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole shipfulls, to the wondering of... | |
| Thomas J. Heffernan - 1992 - 348 sivua
...the bargain and booty, reserving of those library books, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soapsellers, and some they sent over the seas to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but in times whole shipfuls, to the wondering of... | |
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