| Robert Sutcliff - United States - 1811 - 328 pages
...some, even girls of 10 or 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their licads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are...and trowsers for the men; and, for the women, a long garment or a petticoat, and a short waistcoat of the same materials; both -sexes go without shoes or... | |
| Charities - 1812 - 428 pages
...market days many come out of the country with fruit, vegetables, &c. and some, even girls of 10 or 13 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets...without clothing; and what little is allowed to many of tin in is all in rags. Their common lull dress is a coarse sacking or linsey \voolsey shiit and trowsers... | |
| Robert Sutcliff - History - 1812 - 312 pages
...with baskeis on th..ir" heads, without ;:ny clothing. S -me, both men and women, are n arly wi.hout clothing ; and what little is allowed to many of them...rags. Their common full dress is a coarse sacking or li:.sey woolsey shirt an ' trowsers for the men ; and, for the women a long garment or a petticoat,... | |
| History - 1813 - 818 pages
...market days many come out of the country with fruit, vegetables, &c. and some, even girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with...women, are nearly without clothing; and what little ii allowed to many of them is all ia rags. Their common full dress is a coarse sacking or linsey woolsey... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...market days many come out of the country with fruit, vegetables, &c. and some, even girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with...trowsers for the men ; and, for the women, a long garment or a petticoat, and a short waistcoat of the same materials ; both sexes go without shoes or... | |
| William Ladd - Peace - 1831 - 890 pages
...fruit, vegetables, «fee., and some, even girls of ten or twelve years of age, are seen walking in the streets with baskets on their heads, without any...them is all in rags. Their common full dress is a course sacking orlinsy-woolsey shirt and trowsersfor the men ; and for the women a long garment or... | |
| Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...walking- in the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Somex both men and women, arc nearly without clothing, and what little is allowed...them is all in rags. Their common full dress is a course sacking orlinsy-woolsey shirt and trowsers for the men ; and for the women a long garment or... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...market days many come out of the country with fruit, vegetables, &c. and some, e»en girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with...women, are nearly without clothing; and what little ii allowed to many of them it all in rags. Their common full dress is a coarse sacking or linsey woolsey... | |
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