weasands

Mr. Wilkinson), treat us with a dialogue concerning the blowing out of brains, and the incision of weasands, which is conceived and delivered with the broadest humour, enlivened by the choicest of jokes.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

If we fail to kill him, we will embark in the boat and put out to sea; and if we be drowned, we shall at least escape being roasted over a kitchen fire with sliced weasands; whilst, if we escape, we escape, and if we be drowned, we die martyrs.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Armed with a bodkin and a barker he rushes and tushes his way through life, slitting weasands and dubbing every cully he meets a muckworm in the pleasant idiom current (so I take it on faith) in the time of our second JAMES.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Various 1898

Join to this sensation that from the vague swarming sound in African forests, the swishing of branches, the velvety-pads of roving creatures, the jackal's shrill yelp, and up in the sky, two or three hundred feet aloft, vast flocks of cranes passing on with screams like poor little children having their weasands slit.

Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

Nature, by dirk and blade, 'exterminate' any 'vile gladiator,' who may insult him or the Nation; -- whereupon (for the Major is actually drawing his implement) 'they are parted,' and no weasands slit.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Since my return from Australia, I have been solicited by a number of friends to give them a history of my adventures in that land of gold, where kangaroos are supposed to be as plenty as natives, and jump ten times as far, and where natives are imagined to be continually lying in ambush for the purpose of making a hearty meal upon the bodies of those unfortunate travellers who venture far into the interior of the country -- where bushrangers are continually hanging about camp fires, ready to cut the weasands of those who close their eyes for a moment -- and lastly, where every other man that you meet is expected to be a convict, transported from the mother country for such petty crimes as forgery, house-breaking, and manslaughter in the second degree.

The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

"Bide a wee, Maister Rupert Razorbill," he said lightly, lowering his sword, "before we slit ane anither's weasands.

Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Bret Harte 1869

She is expecting you; and, my faith, it would not be safe to leave you standing here long, for I see you would shortly be engaged in splitting the weasands of my comrades. "

St. George for England 1867

So be you on your guard and, if ye fall in this affair, [FN#538] 'tis fairer for you than to die with split weasands. "

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Better than cutting weasands any day for the sake of keeping a Dutch usurper on the throne, "he added in a lower tone.

John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847