- not to everyone's liking: the
herbalist John
Gerard found it "evil and
lothsome" and
Daniel Defoe recounts that at
Hampton Court Palace Queen Anne had...
- more to eat
those great foules calling them Wallowbirds, that is to say
lothsome or
fulsome birdes.
Another account from that voyage,
perhaps the first...
-
strangers that come
among you, to be
scorned and contemned. A
custome lothsome to the eye,
hatefull to the Nose,
harmefull to the braine,
dangerous to...
- was that it had "rescued our
nation from the deadly,
slimy embrace of a
lothsome cuttlefish" in
reference to Russia. He
transferred straight to the Finnish...
- by her enemy, John Knox, who
wrote that in May, "began hir
bellie and
lothsome leggis to swell." Even in the
paranoid political climate of the 16th century...
-
Tobacco in 1604, in
which the king
denounced tobacco use as "[a]
custome lothsome to the eye,
hatefull to the Nose,
harmefull to the braine,
dangerous to...
- and ever hath bene the sinke, the puddle, and
filthie heape of the most
lothsome, infected, and
slavish people that ever yet
lived on earth. ... This wicked...
-
James VI of
Scotland and I of
England described smoking as "A
custome lothsome to the eye,
hatefull to the Nose,
harmefull to the braine,
dangerous to...
