"Tressel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... embossed chair, with a brown-black leathern cushion, beside an oaken table or tressel, groaning under the weight of many ponderous volumes of all hues and subjects. Divers and occult were the tractates there displayed, and unintelligible save to the initiated. Alchemy was just then his favourite research, and he was vainly endeavouring to master the jargon under which its worthlessness ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... With all my heart, and much it ioyes me too, To see you are become so penitent. Tressel and ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... this," said D'Argenson, showing the chevalier two rings fastened into flagstones at six feet apart, and separated by a wooden bench about three feet high; "in these rings are placed the head and feet of the patient; then this tressel is placed under him, so that his stomach is two feet higher than his mouth; then we pour pots of water holding two pints each into his mouth. The number is fixed at eight for the ordinary, ten for the extraordinary question. If the patient refuses to swallow, we pinch his nose so ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere) |
