"Magot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will have blood, they say; blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
... will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak: Augurs and understood relations have, By magot-pyes, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various
... catch the Bream are many; as namely, young Wasps, and a Paste made of brown bread and honey, or Gentels, or especially a worm, a worm that is not much unlike a Magot, which you will find at the roots of Docks, or of Flags, or of Rushes that grow in the water, or watry places, and a Grashopper having his legs nip'd off, or a flye that is in June and July to be found amongst the green Reed, growing by ...
— The Compleat Angler - Facsimile of the First Edition • Izaak Walton
... been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth The secret'st ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair
... upon the ground. They are more bold and vicious than the others. All have cheek pouches, and though some have long tails, in others the tail is short, or reduced to a mere stump. In some few this stump is so very short that there appears to be no tail, as in the magot of North Africa and Gibraltar, and in an allied species ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various |
