 I doubt whether the great mass of the laborers in Norfolk had more than a single garment — a kind of tunic leaving the arms and legs bare, with a girdle of rope or leather round the waist, in which a man's knife was stuck, to use sometimes for hacking...  Historical Studies - Page 36de Augustus Jessopp, Samuel James Capper, Frederic Harrison, Oscar Browning - 1883 - 205 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1888 - 498 pages
...all hygienic laws, made diseases of all kinds frightfully common. As for the laborer's dress, it was a single garment, a kind of tunic leaving the arms and legs bare, with a girdle of rope or leather tied round the waist, in which a knife was stuck to use sometimes in hacking his bread, sometimes for... | |
 | William Lathrop Kingsley - 1888 - 84 pages
...all hygienic laws, made diseases of all kinds frightfully common. As for the laborer's dress, it was a single garment, a kind of tunic leaving the arms and legs bare, with a girdle of rope or leather tied round the waist, in which a knife was stuck to use sometimes in hacking his bread, sometimes for... | |
 | Augustus Jessopp - 1889 - 358 pages
...of the working classes, it was hardly dress at all. I doubt whether the great mass of the labourers in Norfolk had more than a single garment — a kind...such as are familiar to you all, they had never been dreamt of, and I suspect that no more people in Norfolk wore linen habitually than now wear silk. Money... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...vile grog, that maddens people now, our forefathers of six hundred years ago had never even tasted. probably the leprosy strictly so called was awfully...such as are familiar to you all, they had never been dreamt of, and I suspect that no more people in Norfolk wore linen habitually than now wear silk. Money... | |
 | Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor - 1904 - 396 pages
...vile grog, that maddens people now, our forefathers of six hundred years ago had never even tasted. probably the leprosy strictly so called was awfully...such as are familiar to you all, they had never been dreamt of, and I suspect that no more people in Norfolk wore linen habitually than now wear silk. Money... | |
 | William Dumville Smythe - 1905 - 304 pages
...of the working classes, it was hardly dress at all. I doubt whether the great mass of the labourers in Norfolk had more than a single garment, a kind...hacking his bread, sometimes for stabbing an enemy." Among the upper and wealthier classes, however, in the time of the Plantagenets, when the fashion in... | |
 | HENRY W. ELSON, A.M., LTT.D. - 1921 - 1180 pages
...tobacco were unknown. ... " As for the dress of the working classes, it was hardly dress at all — a kind of tunic leaving the arms and legs bare, with a girdle of rope or leather around the waist. The laws against crime were very severe, there being more than two hundred offenses... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1921 - 874 pages
...tobacco were unknown. ... "As for the dress of the working classes, it was hardly dress at all — a kind of tunic leaving the arms and legs bare, with a girdle of rope or leather around the waist. The laws against crime were very severe, there being more than two hundred offenses... | |
 | 1883 - 1120 pages
...of the working classes, it was hardly dress at all. I doubt whether the great mass of the labourers in Norfolk had more than a single garment — a kind...such as are familiar to you all, they had never been dreamt of, and I suspect that no more people in Norfolk wore linen habitually than now wear silk. Money... | |
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