Hints Addressed to the Small Holders and Peasantry of Ireland, on Road-making, and on Ventilation, &c., &cW. Curry, Jun. and Company, 1830 - 88 էջ |
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Էջ 60 - ... who had hastened to the girl's assistance. The trunk was in some measure incinerated, and resembled a heap of coals covered with white ashes. The head, the arms, the legs, and the thighs, had also participated in the burning.
Էջ 4 - Any person who shall lay any stones, timber, dirt, dung, turf, straw, rubbish, or scourings of any ditches or drains, or other object, on any public road or within thirty feet of the centre thereof...
Էջ 3 - Contractor to fill up any Ditch or Drain which shall be scoured, deepened, or widened, or to scour any Drains, which have been filled on...
Էջ 40 - ... sufficiently large. Make a pretty deep hole in the middle of this heap of flour. Take (for a bushel) a pint of good fresh yeast, mix it and stir it well up in a pint of soft water milk-warm. Pour this into the hole in the heap of flour. Then take a spoon and work it round the outside of this body of moisture so as to bring into it by degrees flour enough to make it form a thin batter, which you must stir about well for a minute or two.
Էջ 61 - I am about to relate, may be better understood. This woman was found consumed on the 20th of February, 1725, at the distance of a foot and a half from the hearth in her kitchen. A part of the head only, with a portion of the lower extremities, and a few of the vertebrae, had escaped combustion.
Էջ 61 - ... before the fire while her waiting-maid went out of the room for a few moments. On her return, seeing her mistress on fire, she immediately gave an alarm, and some people having come to her assistance, one of them endeavoured to extinguish the flames with his hand, but they adhered to it as if it had been dipped in brandy or oil on fire. Water was brought and thrown on the lady in abundance, yet the fire appeared more violent, and was not extinguished till the whole flesh had been consumed.
Էջ 3 - ... or to remove any way or passage from any road into any adjoining land or to any house which may obstruct the free passage of the water...
Էջ 3 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall scour, deepen, widen, or fill up any ditch or drain on the side of any road without the consent or direction of the county surveyor ; or if the owner or occupier of any lands contiguous to any public road shall omit to scour any ditch or drain leading from such road, so as to allow the water to pass away, within ten days after Notice shall be given to him or her so to do by such...
Էջ 59 - ... broken open, some flames which were in the room were soon extinguished. Between the bed and the chimney were found the remains of the unfortunate Clues; one leg and a thigh were still entire, but there remained nothing of the skin, the muscles, or the viscera.