How To Use Cosher In A Sentence
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-- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
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Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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Newmarket, in order that he might find an opportunity in their absence of indulging himself in his own gossiping, coshering habits, which were distasteful to Charles, whose temper inclined to formality, and with which even the favourite, of late, had not thought it worth while to seem to sympathise.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Some are still _coshering_ here and there among their charitable neighbors, while many are bitter hearted exiles across the sea.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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Others had been servants to Protestants; and the Protestants added, with bitter scorn, that it was fortunate for the country when this was the case; for that a menial who had cleaned the plate and rubbed down the horse of an English gentleman might pass for a civilised being, when compared with many of the native aristocracy whose lives had been spent in coshering or marauding.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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It was considered as an incident annexed to their tenure, that the socage vassals of the crown, and so of all the subordinate barons, should receive their lord and all his followers, and supply them in their progresses and journeys, which custom continued for some ages after in Ireland, under the name of _coshering_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)