 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 970 pages
...or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a Keld. Of the Pearsons of WHINFELL, the learned Dr. John Pearson, Bishop of Chester, was descended. — The... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 726 pages
...or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a Kcld. Of the Pearsons of WHINFELL, the learned Dr. John Pearson, Bishop of Chester, was descended.... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...word on the Tyne, and confined to the meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited Ullswater, informs me, that when the day is uniformly overcast,...word is also, I find, a common term in Yorkshire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, for" a well or spring. Isl. kelda, palus. KELK, v. to beat heartily.—... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...word on the Tyne, and confined to the"meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited Ullswater, informs me, that when the day is uniformly overcast,...with a smooth, oily appearance, which is called a held. The word is also, I find, a common term in Yorkshire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, for a well... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - England - 1837 - 346 pages
...or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a held. Of the Pearsons of WHINFELL, the learned John Bishop of Chester was descended. — The forest... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - 1837 - 348 pages
...or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a held. Of the Pearsons of WHINFELL, the learned John Bishop of Chester was descended. — The forest... | |
 | Westmorland dialect - Celtic languages - 1839 - 432 pages
...word on the Tyne, and confined to the meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited Ullswater, informs me, that when the day is uniformly overcast,...with a smooth, oily appearance, which is called a held. The word is also I find a common term in Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, for a well... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - Counties - 1842 - 340 pages
...Ousemere, when the day is uniformly ovcrcas>t, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a keld. Of the Pearsons of WHINPELL, the learned John Bishop of Chester was descended. — The forest was famous... | |
 | England - 1901 - 408 pages
...or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a " Keld." Of the Pearsons of Whinfell, the learned Dr. John Pearson, Bishop of Chester, was descended. The forest... | |
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Ullswater, or Ousemere, when the day is uniformly overcast, and the air perfectly still, like many other lakes, has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is called a 