 | Hannah Ann Bullock - 1816 - 494 ページ
...Day, to reanimate the same form, with the definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by a human hand. In consequence of this well authenticated...woe be to the individual birds of this species, who shew themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race : they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
 | Hannah Ann Bullock - 1816 - 492 ページ
...perish by a human hand. In consequence of this well authenticated legend, on the specified auniversary, every man and boy in the island (except those who...woe be to the individual birds of this species, who shew themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race : they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
 | 1817 - 422 ページ
...by Dr. Jitycom. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. definitive sentence tbat she must ultimately perish by ahuman hand. In consequence of this well. authenticated legend;...devote the hours between sun-rise and sun-set, to the liope of exterminating the fairy, and wo be to the individual birds of this species, who shew themselves... | |
 | 1824 - 984 ページ
...succeeding New Year's Day, until she should perish by a human hand. In consequence of this legend, every man and boy in the island (except those who...off the trammels of superstition) devote the hours from the rising to the setting of the sun, on each returning anniversary, to the hope of extirpating... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 ページ
...definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this wellauthenticated legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and boy in the island (except those who have tbrown off the trammels of superstition) devote the hours between sunrise and sunset to the hope of... | |
 | 1854 - 394 ページ
...sentence, that she must ultimately perish by a human band. In consequence of this well-authenticated (! \, legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...individual birds of this species who show themselves on that fatal day 1 They are pursued, pelted, tired at, and destroyed, without mercy ; and their feathers... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 ページ
...form with the definite sentence that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...extirpating the fairy, and woe be to the individual birds of that species who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued,... | |
| |
... themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race : they are pursued, pelted, fired at, and destroyed, without mercy, and their feathers preserved with religious care, it being an article of belief, that every one of the relics gathered... 