 Divested of our Cloaths, with Flail in Hand, At proper Distance, Front to Front we stand: And first the Threshal's gently swung, to prove, Whether with just Exactness it will move: That once secure, we swiftly whirl them round, From the strong Planks...  Attempts in Verse - Pàgina 83per John Jones - 1831 - 332 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Vincent Moorhouse - 1828 - 226 pàgines
...flail in hand, At proper distance, front to front they stand ; And first, the thrashel's gentle swing to prove, Whether with just exactness it will move ; That once secure, they swiftly whirl them round ; From the strong planks, their crab-tree staves rebound ; The echoing... | |
 | John Jones - 1831 - 360 pàgines
...I well may hope for now. Come, strip and try; let's see what you can do!" Divested of our cloath's, with flail in hand, At proper distance, front to front...rebound, And echoing barns return the rattling sound. Now in the air our knotty weapons fly, And now with equal force descend from high ; Down one, one up,... | |
 | John Jones, Robert Southey - 1836 - 360 pàgines
...yield, Sure large day's-works I well may hope for now. Come, strip and try; let's see what you can do!" Divested of our cloaths, with flail in hand, At proper...From the strong planks our crab-tree staves rebound, f And echoing barns return the rattling sound. 1 Now in the air our knotty weapons fly, And now with... | |
 | University of Maine at Orono - 1926 - 628 pàgines
...season when the master calls his laborers together and assigns them their posts for the threshing : Divested of our Cloaths, with Flail in Hand, At proper...rebound, And echoing Barns return the rattling Sound. "Ibid., I, 203. "Celia, probably Mrs. Clayton. "Poems on Several Occasions, 1738, 39-47. "Ibid., 7-20.... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1922 - 184 pàgines
...readers that our Duck could move not at all ungracefully or unvigorously : Divested of our Cloathes, with Flail in Hand, At proper Distance, Front to Front...rebound, And echoing Barns return the rattling Sound. Now in the Air our knotty Weapons fly, And now with equal Force descend from high ; Down one, one up,... | |
 | Robert Southey, John Jones - 1925 - 240 pàgines
...Sure large day's-works I well may hope for now. Come, strip and try ; let's see what you can do ! " Divested of our cloaths, with flail in hand, At proper distance, front to front we stand. And first the threslial's gently swung, to prove Whether with just exactness it will move : That once secure, we... | |
 | William J. Christmas - 2001 - 382 pàgines
...Cloaths, with Flail in Hand, At a just Distance, Front to Front we stand; And first the Threshall's gently swung, to prove, Whether with just Exactness it will move: That once secure, more quick we whirl them round, From the strong Planks our Crab-Tree Staves rebound, And echoing Barns... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 880 pàgines
...the only versifier who has ever described the process in the first person : Divested of our clothes, with flail in hand, At proper distance front to front...strong planks our crab-tree staves rebound. And echoing bams return the rattling sonnd. Now in the air our knotty weapons fly. And now with equal force descend... | |
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