I will give them one which I shall be most thankful to hear they have solved within the next seven yearsHow is it that we find certain plants, namely, the thrift and the scurvy grass, abundant on the sea-shore and common on certain mountain-tops, but nowhere between the two?

Thus the bargain was closed, but many of the butchers talked among themselves of the Sheriff, saying that it was but a scurvy trick to beguile a poor spendthrift youth in this way.

Then bid him better welcome: Belike he's come to write my Epitaph, Some scurvy thing, I warrant: welcome, Sir.

But when we consider how much he lies subject to the humour of all reprobates, and how easily he is tempted from his own house of poverty and melancholy: it is to be feared that he will be willing, too often to forsake his own Study of a few scurvy books; and his own habitation of darkness where there is seldom eating or drinking, for a good lightsome one where there is a bountiful provision of both.

When a scurvy disease had lain hold of my carcase, And death to my chamber was mounting the stair-case.

" "Now by my faith," said the Tinker, "thou art a right good fellow in spite of thy scurvy jests.

"They looked a scurvy lot.

If a man offends in this sort, to please himself, 'tis scurvy malignity; if to delight others, 'tis base servility and flattery: upon the first score he is a buffoon to himself; upon the last, a fool to others.

This extraordinary man was in the habit of tantalizing his guests on a Sunday afternoon with sundry abstruse speculations, and putting them off to the following week for a satisfaction of their doubts; but why should he treat posterity in the same scurvy manner, or leave the world without quitting scores with it?

Not a scurvy nation comes of this stock.

By no means: We cannot have a cause of any fame, But you must have some scurvy pamphlets and lewd ballads Engendered of it presently.

In this test the ordinary healthy man shows normal 30 to 50: the scurvy patient normal 90.

Where's the gigantic triple blow at the heart of this scurvy rebellion?

It was a scurvy return for all my care.

save me from the hands of this scurvy robber.'

Thus his trusty servants were summoned, and after being themselves attacked and nearly overborne, succeeded at last in mastering these scurvy ruffians and handing them over to the law, from which Mr. Aldobrand claimed sovereign justice.

I am Job, and these are the scurvy scabs

"Shall these scurvy Scots carry all before them?I warrant me, no.

"After the above scurvy treatment I was naturally anxious to witness the man's funeral, which I understood was to be a gorgeous affair, six respectably-attired females having been sworn in to kiss the body, amid the hysteric weeps of three more in the background.

The words "Nowe ... scurvy tune" are scored through.

Faith, 'tis you who want, not I, my Lady I hear, you are gone a begging through the town; So, for your husband's sake, I'll take you in; For though I can't forget your scurvy usage, He was a very honest sort of fellow, Though mad as a March hare; so come you in.

So was I but now dreaming here within this boskage how I might perchance win this same Beltane to life without thy scurvy aid, Black Roger.

Middlemen's Spanish Gipsy (IV. 2): "Fortune's a scurvy whore if she makes not my head sound like a rattle and my heels dance the canaries.

Either this place is an emblem of a bawdy house, or a bawdy house of it; for nothing is to be seen in any room but scurvy beds and bare walls.

" Mr. Quince hesitated, and then favoured him with a glance intended to remind him of his scurvy behaviour three days before.