 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - Great Britain - 1842 - 554 pages
...scarcely hold together." The chinks gape in so many places as admit blasts of wind : — " The chimneys have lost half their original height, and lean on...weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage. " Such is the exterior ; and when the hind comes to take possession, he finds it no better... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 752 pages
...freely admit not only the breath of the gentle Zephyr, but the fierce blasts of the Boreas. The chimneys have lost half their original height, and lean on...all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of * The hind is an agricultural servant, whose engagement generally lasts for a year, »nd for whom a... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - Chartism - 1845 - 454 pages
...misplaced; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Bef ve the doors of these dwellings, and often... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...misplaced ; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Before the doors of these dwellings, and often... | |
 | 1845 - 622 pages
...misplaced ; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Before the doors of these dwellings, and often... | |
 | Joseph Kay - Education - 1850 - 680 pages
...hold together. " The chinks gape in so many places as to admit blasts of wind : — " The chimneys have lost half their original height, and lean on...weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage. " Such is the interior ; and when the hind comes to take possession, he finds it no better... | |
 | Arts - 1850 - 270 pages
...look as if they would scarcely hold together. The wind rushes in through gaping chinks; the chimneys have lost half their original height, and lean on...displaced; and the thatch, yawning to admit the wind and the wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection... | |
 | 1850 - 534 pages
...gravitation. The rafters are evidently rotten and displaced; and the thatch, yawning to admit the wind and the wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit...weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage.' ' Such is the exterior ; and when the hind comes to take possession, he finds it no... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...age, or from the badness of the materials, the walls look as if they would scarcely hold together; the rafters are evidently rotten and displaced, and the thatch, yawning to admit thewind and the wet in some places, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...evidently rotten and displaced, and the thatch yawning to admit the wind and the wet in some places, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose...looks more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. The hind when he takes possession finds it no better than a shed. The wet, if it happens to rain, is... | |
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The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys had lost half their original height; the rotten rafters were evidently misplaced; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit... 
