 | 1830 - 736 pages
...of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of its roof, and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted...before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to the gateway of Fitzford ; a penance doomed to endure till the last blade of grass... | |
 | 1830 - 714 pages
...runs before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to the gateway of Fitzford ja penance doomed to endure till the last blade of grass shall be plucked, when the world will be at an end." — Ktz q/" Pitxford, vol. 3, p. 993. There was at Filzford a small chapel dedicated to St. George.... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 472 pages
...of hones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of its roof; and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted...before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to the gateway of Fitz-ford; a penance doomed to endure till the last blade of grass... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 440 pages
...of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of its roof; and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted...before her, to bring nightly a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to the gateway of Fitz-ford ; a penance doomed to endure till the last blade of grass... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - 1848 - 348 pages
...bones, preceded by her skeleton hound, driving through the streets of Tavistock, at midnight, to bring a blade of grass from Okehampton Park to the gateway of Fitzford. Nor shall we omit to notice Fitz's Well, a spring on the ridge of the hill, which, according to the... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe - 1874 - 300 pages
...of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of its roof, and Lady Howard rides in it, a pale and sheeted spectre, as her skeleton hounds run before her to bring nightly a blade of grass from Okehamptou Park to the gateway of Fitzford,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1884 - 340 pages
...of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that once ornamented the four corners of its roof; and Lady Howard rides in it a pale and sheeted...grass shall be plucked, when the world will be at an end. The fate of Betsy Grimbal also is only known by tradition. In the vicarage garden of Tavistock... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - 1896 - 600 pages
...bones, preceded by her skeleton hound, driving through the streets of Tavistock, at midnight, to bring a blade of grass from Okehampton Park to the gateway of Fitzford. Nor shall we omit to notice Fitz's Well, a spring on the ridge of the hill, which, according to the... | |
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Fitz, may still be seen, amid the " glimpses of the moon," rattling through the streets of this town on its way to Okehampton Park, the seat at which she died. But the vehicle is now a coach of bones. Human skulls supply the place of those balls that... 