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" If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are put upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed until they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this... "
The Family Library (Harper). - Page 211
1842
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 74

English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...marriage. A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. The food used for this cuitom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called ¿rough ¡ which is of an extraordinary...
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An Account of Tunis: Of Its Government, Manners, Customs, and Antiquities ...

Thomas MacGill - Tunisia - 1811 - 204 pages
...marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 7, Part 2

1811 - 600 pages
...marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the , shackles which the former...
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Select Reviews of Literature, Volume 7

1812 - 560 pages
...for marriage. A girl after she is betrothed, is cooped in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. Jf she is to be married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 7

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...lost a former wile, the shackles which the former wife Wore, are put upon the new bride's limbs ; ami she is fed Until they are filled up to the proper thickness. This is sometimes no easy matter ; particularly if the former wife was fat, and the presentshould be...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 15

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...has discharged, dispatched, or !<>st a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are pnt upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed until they...up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called druugh, which is of an extraordinary fattening quality,...
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The History of the War: From the Commencement of the French ..., Volume 3

Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver and gold are put upon her ancles and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former...
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History and Present Condition of the Barbary States: Comprehending a View of ...

Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1835 - 466 pages
...marriage. A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room, when shackles of gold and silver are put upon her ankles and wrists as a piece of dress....are put upon the new bride's limbs ; and she is fed till they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this purpose, worthy of barbarians,...
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The volume of the affections; or, Bridal offering

Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room ; shackles of gold and silver are placed upon her ankles and wrists, as a piece of dress. — If she is to be married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former...
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Gleason's Monthly Companion, Volume 9

1880 - 588 pages
...married to a man who has discharged, dispatched or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore are put upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed till they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians,...
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