- "[Godwits] were
accounted the
daintiest dish in
England and I think, for the
bignesse, of the
biggest price." Old
names included Blackwit, Whelp, Yarwhelp, Shrieker...
- up and
swelleth somewhat mountainous, with
moores and hilles, but of no
bignesse,
which beginning here runs like as
Apennine doth in Italie,
through the...
-
thought that the
creature was
named using these root
words "because by his
bignesse he
seemes not one
single creature, but a
coupling of
divers together; or...
- they come
forth of the oven, you may cut them
without the
bowles of what
bignesse or what
fashion you please.
Although there are
earlier references, Shrewsbury...
-
plenty of Doves,
great Parrats, and such like; and a
great fowle of the
bignesse of a Turkie, very fat, and so
short winged, that they
cannot fly, being...
-
magnitude system in this way: The
fixed Stars appear to be of
different Bignesses, not
because they
really are so, but
because they are not all equally...
-
Professor of
Astronomy explainedː The
fixed Stars appear to be of
different bignesses, not
because they
really are so, but
because they are not all equally...
-
Canagorah lyes on the top of a
great hill, and in that, as well as in the
bignesse, much like Onandago,
contayning 150 houses,
northwestward of
Caiougo 72...
- for "an
houre or more",
while the cake is to be
baked "according to the
bignesse". A
version of this recipe,
adapted for
small cakes, was
given in The Guardian...
