 When a town celebrates the busk," says he, " having previously provided themselves with new clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse their...  Traditional Festivals [2 Volumes]: A Multicultural Encyclopediaby Christian Roy - 2005 - 548 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - History - 1996 - 220 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | William Bartram - Science - 1998 - 826 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions, they cast together in one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | James Taylor Carson - Social Science - 2003 - 206 pages
...celebrates the [green corn ceremony]," the naturalist recorded, "they collect all their wornout cloths and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse their...houses, squares, and the whole town, of their filth." The ceremony may have lapsed again by the early nineteenth century, because Reverend Alfred Wright... | |
 | Joshua David Bellin - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 294 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | Lee Irwin - Religion - 2000 - 343 pages
...new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn-out cloaths and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse their...the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other provisions, they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Social Science - 2005 - 432 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | John Dolis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
 | Shawn Chandler Bingham - Social Science - 2008 - 166 pages
...furniture, they collect all of their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and clean their houses, squares, and the whole town of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and older provisions they cast into one common heap and consume it with fire." 20.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Solitude - 2002 - 544 pages
...clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse...the whole town of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with... | |
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