 | John MacCulloch - 1824 - 502 pages
...growing by successive stratification till the heads of the inmates reach the roof, is plainly a rel Jc of this practice. If the High street of this city...and their clothes are covered with feathers. The o 2 196 ST. KILDA. women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin; every... | |
 | John Macculloch - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1824 - 522 pages
...corruption which time will introduce into the best-laid projects of man. Swift, in his Tale of a Tub, describes a land of feathers, and perhaps he drew...and their clothes are covered with feathers. The o 2 I women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; every thing smells... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1833 - 852 pages
...Swift, in his Tale of a Tub, describes a land of feathers, ana perhaps he drew the hint from St. Hilda. The air is full of feathered animals ; the sea is...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; every thing smells... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1831 - 446 pages
...animals, the sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, the ground is speckled by them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved...seems as if it had been sown with feathers, and the inhahitants look as if they had been all tarred and feathered, for their hair is full of feathers,... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1842 - 750 pages
...here is full of feathered animals, the sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, and the inhabitants look as if they had been all tarred...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; everything smells... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1844 - 362 pages
...animals, the sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, the ground is speckled by them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; every thing smells... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Highlands (Scotland) - 1852 - 362 pages
...animals, the sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, the ground is speckled by them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; every thing smells... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1853 - 368 pages
...animals, the sea is covered with them, tbe houses are ornamented by them, the ground is speckled by them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gaunet's skin; even-thing mells... | |
 | British birds - 1857 - 324 pages
...animals ; the sea is covered with them ; the houses are ornamented by them ; the ground is speckled by them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved...feathers ; and the inhabitants look as if they had all been tarred and feathered, for their hair is full of feathers, and their clothes are covered with... | |
 | George Seton - 1878 - 386 pages
...myself with his own account of one of the special characteristics of St Kilda. " The air," he says, " is full of feathered animals, the sea is covered with...feathers, and their clothes are covered with feathers. The women look like feathered Mercuries, for their shoes are made of a gannet's skin ; everything smells... | |
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The air is full of feathered animals, the sea is covered with them, the houses are ornamented by them, the ground is speckled with them like a flowery meadow in May. The town is paved with feathers, the very dunghills are made of feathers, the ploughed... 
