 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 стор.
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into thebody of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 стор.
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 296 стор.
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 стор.
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a jsAreiw-ash at hand ; which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 468 стор.
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Again« this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefather! always kept... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1829 - 368 стор.
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 стор.
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger,... | |
 | 1835 - 466 стор.
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when ouce medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :— Into the body of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 стор.
...seldom to fail to grow togegether after having been split, so also does it rarely happen that infant* affected with umbilical hernia fail to be relieved...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus2: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1838 - 246 стор.
...relieve the anguish said to be caused by the creeping of a shrew mouse on a horse, cow, or sheep, and it was made thus : " Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an augur, and a poor devoted It seems but fair to admit that if some animals are made to suffer as enemies,... | |
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For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. 
