| Francis Grose, Pierce Egan - 1823 - 342 pągines
...legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards. I RON. Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison... | |
| Francis Grose - 1823 - 342 pągines
...legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards. IRON. Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows ; to look out of grated or prison... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - 1004 pągines
...low Irish. Irish Legs. Thick and clumsy ones. Grose says that " the Irish women have ftdUpensation from the pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards." Irish "Wedding. When a person has a black eye we sometimes say to him, " You have been to an Irish wedding,... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1885 - 1098 pągines
...low Irish. Irieh Legs. Thick and clumsy ones. Orose »ays that "the Irish women have artispensation from the pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards." Irieh Wedding. When a person Ьыа black eye we sometimes say to him, You have been to an Irish wedding,... | |
| Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 pągines
...Line., p. 159. The Irish arms. Thick legs. It is said of the Irish women that they have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards. — G., Diet. Hast thou never a Knack in thy sot's head, never a shifting shoo of an Irish hobby ?... | |
| 1913 - 96 pągines
...trump. Hope soothes the tired heart. A heavy purse makes a light heart. Irish women have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards. A dishonest woman can't be kept in, and an honest woman won't. Although there was nobody present but... | |
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