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" That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For,... "
Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Página 124
por Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumen15

1848 - 602 páginas
...description of the death-watch, with his infallible method of breaking the spell. He calls it — " A wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form : With teeth or with^laws it will bile or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch : Because,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volumen20

1849 - 638 páginas
...Swifi's description of the death-watch, with his infallible method of breaking the spell. He calls it — A wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in...watch, it always cries " click ;" Then woe be to those in. the house who are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries "click,"...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volumen3

John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 páginas
...in his invective against wood. It furnishes us, too, with a charm to avert the omen : " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With...watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click,...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volumen3

Robert Kemp Philp - 408 páginas
...hour of death." Swift ridicules this absurd superstition in the following manner : — '* A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite, it will scratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a death-watch, — Because, like a watch, it...
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The Journal of Health, Volúmenes1-2

1852 - 604 páginas
...it would appear, by the oU song, ' A cobbler there was, and he lived in a stall ;' runs thus — ' A wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form ; With teeth, or with elaws, it will bite, it will seratch. And chambermaids christen this worin a deathwatch. Because, like...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volumen3

John Brand - 1855 - 520 páginas
...in his invective against wood. It furnishes us, too, with a charm to avert the omen: " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With...watch, it always cries click: Then woe be to those in the house who are sick; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click,...
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Things Not Generally Known: Popular Errors Explained & Illustrated ...

John Timbs - 1858 - 274 páginas
...Vulgar Errors, b. ii. c. 7. Swift endeavoured to perform this useful task by means of ridicule, thus : "A wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in...watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house that are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost If the maggot cries click...
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Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated: A Book for Old and Young

John Timbs - 1858 - 298 páginas
...e. 7. i Swift endeavoured to perform this useful task by means of ridicule, thus : ' "A wood -worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : With...watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house that are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost If the maggot cries click...
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The Corner Cupboard of Facts for Everybody: Embracing Facts About-I. Things ...

Robert Kemp Philp - 1859 - 396 páginas
...hour of death.'1 Swift ridicules the absurd superstition in the following manner : — " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form With teeth or wilh claws it will bite, it will »cratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a deathwatch. — Because,...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1859 - 854 páginas
...contains an effectual charm against the omen : — - A wood worm , That liri in old wood, like a ban- in her form. With teeth or with claws, it will bite or will •cratch. And chambermaid! christen this worm a death watch : Because like a watch it alwavi erica...
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