 ... each picks up a sweetheart, conducts her to a dancing-room, and treats her with punch, wine, and cake. Here they spend their afternoon, and part of their half-year's wages, in drinking and dancing, unless, as it frequently happens, a girl becomes...  The Northern star, or Yorkshire magazine, ed. by A. Jewitt - Page 273edited by Full view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 652 pages
...their afternoon, and part of their half-year's wages, in drinking and dancing; unless, as it frequeutly happens, a girl becomes the subject of contention,...secures the maid for the present ; but she is sometimes Jinally won by the vanquished pugilist. When the diversions of the day are concluded, the servants... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...half-years wages, in drinking afid dancing; unless, as it frequently happens, a girl becomes .the subjeét of contention, when the harmony of the meeting is interrupted, and the candidates for her affeftion settle the dispute by blows, without further ceremony. Whoever obtains the victory, secures... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...lasses," each picks up a sweetheart, conducts her to a dancing-room, and treats her with punch, wine, and cake. Here they spend their afternoon, and part...meeting is interrupted, and the candidates for her love settle the dispute by blows. When the diversions of the day are concluded, the servants generally... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...lasses," each picks up a sweetheart, conducts her to a dancing-room, and treats her with punch, wine, and cake. Here they spend their afternoon, and part...meeting is interrupted, and the candidates for her love settle the dispute by blows. When the diversions of the day are concluded, the servants generally... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...lasses," each picks up a sweetheart, conducts her to a dancing-room, and treats her with punch, wine, and cake. Here they spend their afternoon, and part...meeting is interrupted, and the candidates for her love settle the dispute by blows. When the diversions of the day are concluded, the servants generally... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...to file off, and gently pace the streets with a view of gaining admirers, while the young men, with similar designs, follow them, and, having eyed the...dispute by blows without further ceremony. Whoever wins the victory secures the maid for the present, but she is sometimes finally won by the vanquished... | |
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