"Wode" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these two stout earls did meet; Like captains of great might, Like lions wode, they laid on lode, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
... Gaue, or Wode) is said in Mecklenburg to love to drive through the village streets on the Twelve Nights with a train of dogs. Wherever she finds a street-door open she sends a little dog in. Next morning he wags his |242| tail at the inmates and whines, and will not be driven away. ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... last these two stout earls did meet Like captains of great might; Like lions wode, they laid on lode; They made a ...
— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... of a cryinge in desert, make ye redy the wayes of the Lord, make ye rightful the pathes of hym. Forsothe that like Joon hadde cloth of the beeris of cameylis and a girdil of skyn about his leendis; sothely his mete weren locustis and hony of the wode. Thanne Jerusalem wente out to hym, and al Jude, and al the cuntre aboute Jordan, and thei weren crystened of hym in in ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... and Gorse were probably distinguished, though now the two names are applied to the same plant. "In the 15th Henry VI. (1436), license was given to Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, to inclose 200 acres of land—pasture, wode, hethe, vrises,[106:1] and gorste (bruere, et jampnorum), and to form thereof a Park at Greenwich."—Rot. Parl. iv. 498.[106:2] This proves that the "Gorst" was different from the "Vrise," and ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe |
