 My Husband hath ventured himself among the Indians for corn, and can get none, as also our honored Governor hath distributed his so far, that a day or two more will put an end to his store, and all the rest, and yet methinks our Children are as cheerful,...  MEDICAL ESSAYS - Page 322by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 904 pages
...who smiled over their children, fancying that they were as "fat and lusty with feeding upon muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread, which made them cheerful in the Lord's providing for them:" of others, who, mid " the great straits... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1815 - 624 pages
...methinks our Children areas cheerefull, fat, and lusty with feeding upon those Mussells, Clambanks and other Fish as they were in England, with their fill of Bread, which makes mee cheerfull in the Lords providing for us, being further confirmed by the exhortation... | |
 | Henry White - Indian captivities - 1841 - 440 pages
...store. And yet ntethinks that our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread; which makes mecheerful in the provision the Lord makes for us : being further confirmed by the exhortation... | |
 | Henry White - Indian captivities - 1843 - 444 pages
...store. And yet methinks that our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread ; which makes me cheerful in the provision the Lord makes for us : being further confirmed by the exhortation... | |
 | Fisheries - 1853 - 328 pages
...who smiled over their children, fancying that they were as "fat and lusty with feeding upon muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread, which made them cheerful in the Lord's providing for them ;" of others, who, mid "the great straits... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1858 - 696 pages
...hath distributed his so far, that a day or two more will put an end to his store, and all the rest ; and yet methinks our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon those mussels, clam-banks, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread ; which makes me cheerful... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - History - 1859 - 686 pages
...hath distributed his so far, that a day or two more will put an end to his store, and all the rest ; and yet methinks our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon those mussels, clam-banks, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread; which makes me cheerful... | |
 | Henry White - Indian captivities - 1859 - 440 pages
...store. And yet methinks that our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread ; which makes me cheerful in the provision the Lord makes for us : being further confirmed by the exhortation... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 524 pages
...feeding upon those muscles, clams, and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread."' Higginson, himself a dyspeptic, " continually in physic,"...clothing, and to comfort his stomach with drink that was "both strong and stale," 2 — the " jolly good ale and old," I suppose, of free and easy Bishop Still's... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 522 pages
...undergone, in such a measure as would have been admired, if we had lived in England with the like means."3 Edward Johnson, after mentioning the shifts to which...our children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty, with 1 Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 234. 2 Magnnlia, book i. chap. 5. 3 Chron. of the Pilgrims, 3'i'J,... | |
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