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...volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of Saint Distaff's Day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day, by Robert Herrick. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 6th, 2008. What is St. Distaff's Day? Historically, it was the day after the Christmas festivals en...

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...nd stared in concentration at her bobbin as she eased the un- spun thread from the distaff and resumed her spinning. “No, I can’t help you.” “But y...

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...ow can I stop it when my lady will not have the maidens kept ever at their distaffs and needles in seemly fash- ion,” cried a small but stout and self... ...sses and vessels of curious shapes, and a big book, and at the other was a distaff, a work-basket, and other feminine gear. Shelves with pewter dishes... ...s of the stoop, conversing with their gossips, she pre- ferred to take her distaff or needle among the roses, some- times tending them, sometimes begu...

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...him sweare so, and he shall not stay, 94 Wee’l thwack him hence with Distaffes. 95 Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture 96 The...

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...ng women, and of two or three stout serving wenches, who sate plying their distaffs behind the backs of their young mistresses. As soon as Earnscliff ... ...” “Besides,” said Mr. Vere, smiling mysteriously, “he had other tow on his distaff last night. Have you not heard young Elliot of the Heugh-foot has h...

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...go; But let him swear so, and he shall not stay, We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs. Yet of your royal presence I’ll adventure The borrow of a week....

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...est wholesale mercers in the same street, the Maison Guepin, at the “Three Distaffs.” When Sylvie Rogron, aged twenty-one, had risen to be forewoman a... ...or rather the Guepin clan, the youngest scion of which now kept the “Three Distaffs”; and thirdly, Madame Guenee from whom they had purchased the “Fam...

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...railed long locks of hair in color and 11 Balzac shape like the flax on a distaff. She wore no fichu. A coarse woollen petticoat in black and gray st...

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...s musters and conduct his powers: I must change arms at home, and give the distaff Into my husband’s hands. This trusty servant Shall pass between us... ...s musters and conduct his powers: I must change arms at home, and give the distaff Into my husband’s hands. This trusty servant Shall pass between us...

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...anged, with: “i, semper melius eris,”—a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in...

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...dsmen learn to bend their bows Of double fatal yew against thy state; Yea, distaff women manage rusty bills Against thy seat: both young and old rebel...

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...? 15 Act I, scene iii SIR TOBY BELCH: Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee be- tween her legs and spi...

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...e, and Watch joined in the game in full amity. Mother Dolly, busy with her distaff, looked on, not displeased, except when she had to guard her spindl... ... of glow- worms, as he called the Pleiades; and ‘Our Lady’s Rock,’ namely, distaff, the northern name for Orion; and then he talked of the stars that ...

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..., within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the order ing of your servants; for speech is man’s matter,... ... – Book IV 39 his wife gave Helen some beautiful presents, to wit, a golden distaff, and a silver work box that ran on wheels, with a gold band round... ... top of it. Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it. Th... ..., within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your ser vants. This bow is a man’s matter,...

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...the place, more charming With their own nobleness, which could have turn’d A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks, Part shame, part spirit renew’d; t...

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...young women in the tiniest and wickedest of dolls’ straw hats, who lean out at opened lattice blinds, are almost the only airs stirring. Very ugly and...

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... not join his order and fight. (Dampmartin, passim.) Can he bear to have a Distaff, a Quenouille sent to him; say in copper-plate shadow, by post; or ... ...Castries, your eloquent Cazales; bull-headed Malseignes, a wargod Broglie; Distaff Seigneurs, insulted Officers, all that have ridden across the Rhine...

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... her head, and a profusion of long hair falling round her like flax from a distaff, lay wearily a little figure, beside whom Sir Eberhard was kneeling... ... Gotz rush headlong down the hillside; and the Lady Baroness lays down her distaff, and gazes with eyes of satisfied content at the small party of hor...

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... of what you understand,” said Hamish, much irritated, “and that is of the distaff and the spindle.” “And was it of spindle and distaff that I was thi...

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... the rest of your days.” “By my faith;” cried the mother, letting fall her distaff, “do you mean what you say?” “Yes.” “Well, then, what will you give...