 ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.  The Table Book - Pàgina 439per William Hone - 1828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pàgines
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouseover the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse...continually liable, our provident fore-fathers always kept a shrewash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 296 pàgines
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pàgines
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pàgines
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected :* for it is supposed that...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrewash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1829 - 368 pàgines
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pàgines
...supposed, also, to be particularly injurious to hors«s. " When a horse in the fields happened to be shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature,...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pàgines
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pàgines
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so banefid and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1835 - 934 pàgines
...part affected. for il la supposcd that a shrewmouse is u! so baneful and deletcrious a naturc, tliat wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, llie sufiering animal is afJlicled wilh cruel anguish , aud threatened with the lofs of the use of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 pàgines
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a...deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beastv be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened... | |
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