 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...and weapons of this figure have a refcmblance of Diana rather than Venus. 7. Seatrr, or Crodo, itood on the prickly back of a perch. He was thin-vifaged...bare-headed and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water i/i his right hand'wherein are fruit and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and hie coat... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...rather than to Venus. 7. Sealer, or Crodo, stood on the prickly back of a perch. He was thin-visaged and long-haired, with a long beard, bare-headed and...carrying a pail of water in his right hand, wherein are fruits and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle. His standing... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 500 pages
...hack of a perch : he was thin visaged and long haired, with a long heard, hare-headed and hare-footed, carrying a pail of water in his right hand, wherein...flowers , and holding up a wheel in his left, and hi- coat tied with a long girdle : his standing on the sharp fins of this fish, signified to the Saxons,... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...CRODO, is represented as standing on the prickly back of a fish, having a visage and his hair long, with a long beard, bare-headed and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water in his right hand, in which are fruits and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left ; his coat being tied with a long... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1859 - 854 pages
...7. Stater, or Crorfo, stood on the prickly back of a perch : he was thin visaged, and long haired, with a long beard, bareheaded and barefooted, carrying...of water in his right hand, wherein are fruit and Bowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and hii coat tied with a long girdle; his standing on the... | |
 | Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1908 - 224 pages
...of Diana rather than 7. Seater or Crodo stood on the prickly back of a perch: he was thin-visaged, and longhaired, with a long beard, bare-headed and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water in hia right hand, wherein are fruit and flowers; and holding xip a wheel in his left; and his coat tied... | |
 | 1867 - 688 pages
...Seater stood on the prickly back of a perch : he was thin-visaged and long-haired, with a long beard, and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water in his right hand, (wherein were fruit and flowers,) and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle :... | |
 | 1868 - 400 pages
...Seater stood on the prickly back of a perch ; he was thin-visaged and long-haired, with a long beard, and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water in his right hand (wherein were fruit and flowers) and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle :... | |
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... and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle. His standing on the sharp fins of this fish signified to the Saxons that by worshipping him they should pass through all dangers unhurt : by his girdle flying both... 