 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 590 pages
...swine turned Xormans to my comfort!" quoth Gurth ; " expound that to me. \Vamba, for my brain is too 30 dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles." "Why,...about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. " Swine, fooC swine," said the herd ; " every fool knows that." 35 " And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 592 pages
...turned Normans to my comfort I " quoth Gurth ; " expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too jo dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles." " Why,...brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded WamDa. " Swine, fool, swine," said the herd ; " every fool knows that." S5 " And swine is good Saxon,"... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 pages
...THACK., Pend., II, Ch. IX, 107. What do you call a 'snob' in Dutch? STOP., Handl. , III, ý 127. ii. How call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? SCOTT , 1 vanhoe , Ch. 1 , 8. Who is the man you search for? how d'ye call | Him? what's his lineage?... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 568 pages
...brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles." Mast: nuts. Weather-gage: the windward. " Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded Waiuba. " Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, " every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon,"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 568 pages
...comfort." " The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! " quoth Gurth ; " expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles." Mast: nuts. Weather-gage: the windward. Banger of the forest: see Glossary. " Why, how call you those... | |
 | 1912 - 414 pages
...comfort." " The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! " quoth Gurth; " expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read...running about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. ANGLO-NORMAN DAYS " Swine, fool, swine," said the herd; "every fool knows that." " And swine is good... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pages
...feature of his story, by putting the following conversation in the mouths of these Saxon menials : " How call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? " demanded Wamba, the jester. "Swine," said the herd. "And swine is good Saxon," said the jester; "but how call you it... | |
 | Ellen Winifred Adamson - 1915 - 426 pages
...words, on the other hand, suggest the experience of a people of higher culture and civilisation : "' Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs 1' demanded Wamba. "' Swine, fool, swine,' said the herd,' every fool knows that.' " ' And swine is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1897 - 596 pages
...comfort." " The swine turned Normans to my comfort! " quoth Gurth; " expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read...every fool knows that." " And swine is good Saxon," 8 said the Jester; " but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 pages
...something more exalted. Latinized from a Saxon villein into a Norman courtier : "Why, how call you these grunting brutes running about on their four legs ?*'...swine," said the herd ; " every fool knows that." " And swtnc is good Saxon," said the jester ; " but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and... | |
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Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? " demanded Wamba. " Swine, fool, swine," said the herd; 
