These being still perfectly solid, were used by the family as outhouses to store wood and peats, to keep the garden tools in, and for such like purposes.

The peats were excellent, and burned cheerfully.

The cutting peats at the increase of the moon was mentioned as one; but he would not allow it, saying, it was not a superstition, but a whim.

2 "You are pretty peats, and your great portions Add much unto your handsomeness.

There is so great a scarcity of wood in these parts, that the inhabitants use turf or peats for fuel, as is done in Flanders.

One could see it rock and swerve, shaking off loose peats, where the ground was broken, and Grace glanced at the steep pitch Kit had come to watch.

For peats were yet to ca', Our sheep they were to smear, When my a' dwined awa', In the fa' o' the year.

The international ramifications of a sordid paedophile ring is exposed, following the conviction of Freddy Peats, a German national involved in the abuse and traffic of Goa's under-age.

Fresh peats were piled on the fire, another candle was lit, and the party prepared to make themselves comfortable.

(2) It has also been considered as the result of the more or less complete decomposition of plants under the influence of heat and dampness, which has led them to pass successively through the following principal stages: peat, lignite, bituminous coal, anthracite.

Anthracite and bituminous coal would have belonged especially to primary times, lignites to secondary and tertiary times, and peat to our own epoch, without the peat ever being able to become lignites or the latter coal.

Anthracite and bituminous coal would have belonged especially to primary times, lignites to secondary and tertiary times, and peat to our own epoch, without the peat ever being able to become lignites or the latter coal.

Peat 5.63 57.03 29.67 2.09 5.58 Lignite 5.59 70.49 17.2 1.73 49.1 4.99 1.2 Bitumin.

For my part I hate boating, and I hate the water; and I'd rather have my house, like Haworth, at the edge of a moss, with good wholesome peat to look at, and an open horizonsavage and stupid and bleak as all that isthan be suffocated among impassable mountains, or upset in a black lake and drowned like a kitten.

"Neea whaar sooa far south, Mrs. Wale, ma'am; but ma father was off times down thar cuttin' peat.

If ye gar me gie ye a look, 'twill gie ye the creepin's while ye live; so git ye doun, Tom;' and with that the dobby lifts its neaf, and Tom saw there was a red light round horse and man, like the glow of a peat fire.

"Go, quick, Frank," shouted Tom, "and stir up the fire; heap more peats and wood on, and bring lighted torches as soon as you can.

[Variant 5: 1827. ... of peats ... 1800.]

In some villages the lads collected the peats in a cart, some of them drawing it along and the others receiving the peats and loading them on the cart.

In some villages the lads collected the peats in a cart, some of them drawing it along and the others receiving the peats and loading them on the cart.

Along with the peats they accumulated straw, furze, potato haulm, everything that would burn quickly, and when they had got enough they piled it all in a heap and set it on fire.

After that some of them still continued to run through the scattered ashes and to pelt each other with the half-burned peats.

Hence, at the time of casting peats, every one laid aside a large one, saying, 'Faaid mooar moayney son oie'l fingan'; that is, 'a large turf for Fingan Eve.'"

Communicating the fire to the tow, the tow communicates it to a candle, the candle to a fir-torch, the torch to a cartful of peats, which the master of the ceremonies, with pious ejaculations for the success of the experiment, distributes to messengers, who will proceed with portions of it to the different houses within the said two running streams, to kindle the different fires.

As the lower peats became red-hot, they drew them from underneath, and placed them on the top.