The mast was supported by a large wooden maststep called a kerling (" Old Woman " in Old Norse ) that was semicircular in shape.

A popular 18th century nursery rhyme is There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

* Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Pro-Slavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South ( 1996 ).

* Tommie Baxter ... Old Woman

For example, consider the references to the use of a Dobro guitar on songs like " The Ballad of Curtis Loew " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Valium Waltz " by the Old 97's, " When Papa Played the Dobro " by Johnny Cash on the Ride This Train album, or " Gold Dust Woman ", a song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours which features a a Dobro.

* Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs

Vieja friendo huevos ( 1618, English: Old Woman Cooking Eggs ).

Known for his compositions of amusing genre scenes ( also called bodegones ), such as Old Woman Frying Eggs, his sacred subjects include Adoración de los Reyes ( 1619, The Adoration of the Magi ), and Jesús y los peregrinos de Emaús ( 1626, Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus ), both of which begin to express his more pointed and careful realism.

Many characters appear as automatons stuck in routines speaking only in cliché ( Ionesco called the Old Man and Old Woman in The Chairs " uber-marrionettes ").

Competition was fierce to avoid having to take in the Old Woman.

Some scholars believe the Old Irish poem, ' The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare ' is about the Cailleach ; Kuno Meyer states, '... she had fifty foster-children in Beare.

*" The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare ", ed.

James George Frazer discusses the Corn-mother and the Corn-maiden in Northern Europe, and the harvest rituals that were being practised at the beginning of the 20th century: " In the neighbourhood of Danzig the person who cuts the last ears of corn makes them into a doll, which is called the Corn-mother or the Old Woman and is brought home on the last waggon.

" In East Prussia, at the rye or wheat harvest, the reapers call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, “ You are getting the Old Grandmother .... In Scotland, when the last corn was cut after Hallowmas, the female figure made out of it was sometimes called the Carlin or Carline, that is, the Old Woman.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

* Cailleach Gaelic: Old Woman or The Hag ( harvest after All Saints )

Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender.

The Ugly Duchess | A Grotesque Old Woman Oil on wood, 64 x 45, 5 cm National Gallery, London | National Gallery, London.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

The Old Man was unimportant.

but here he was just Signore or the Old Man.

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.

In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.

The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Although in the 18th and 19th century these figures were mistakenly identified as the Merovingian monarchs of France ( thus attracting the opprobrium of Revolutionary iconoclasts ) they almost certainly represent the kings and queens of the Old Testament – another standard iconographical feature of gothic portals.

Lazarus assists Ira in the migration to Tertius ; settles the latter ; and attempts a trans-temporal journey to Earth, circa 1919-1929 ; but mistakenly arrives in 1916, there to insinuate himself into his parents ' family under the name of " Ted Bronson ", whom his grandfather Ira ( resembling " The Old Man " of Heinlein's earlier work The Puppet Masters ) suspects to be an illegitimate nephew or son of his own.

Suppose Zachary believes in the general principle of always obeying the commands in the Bible, and mistakenly thinks that these are completely encompassed by every Old Testament command.

In the quarto text of Henry IV, Part 2 ( 1600 ), one of Falstaff's speech prefixes in Act I, Scene ii is mistakenly left uncorrected, " Old.

In the quarto text of Henry IV, Part 2 ( 1600 ), one of Falstaff's speech prefixes in Act I, Scene ii is mistakenly left uncorrected, " Old.

According to local legend, the two engineers who planned the restoration of the Old City walls in 1538 mistakenly left Mt.

* University of Virginia – The Cavalier Song, UVA Yes !, and The Good Old Song ( while The Good Old Song, to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne ", is sometimes mistakenly listed as a fight song, it is actually the school's alma mater )

Davidson is often mistakenly listed as a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee for the Revised Version of 1881.

In the Old West, Coffin is a well-meaning " dude " from back East who mistakenly attacks a Native American village.