| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like . Laurence Justinian 6. Sí. cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture— and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle, to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture — and the malignancy,... | |
| American essays - 1864 - 816 pages
...sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet, — with a delectable hole in the middle to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass. I have an intense recollection of that disused instrument of torture, and the malignancy,... | |
| British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1861 - 434 pages
...sort of flat ruler widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear — but nothing like so sweet — with a delectable hole in the middle to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass." This is the only mention I have met with of a perforated ferule. issued either in the... | |
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