An extinct word from the English language once referring to the eyes after waking from a night's sleep, the word "gumbled" can be found again in modern English during a quick search engine look.
But, in reality, rather than the word making a comeback, it seems to me that it tends to surface often as a confusion for the word "jumbled"--or perhaps a (possibly more often unconscious rather than conscious) combining of "gum" and "jumbled" to stress a more difficult ("gummed-up") sort of disarray or confusing situation.
"If you ask me, what these cards lack are illustration..."
A drawing presumably made by a library patron:
"I'll have the Salman Rushdie with a side of Spring Rice."
The Lord Monteagle of Brandon in 19th century Ireland, Thomas Spring Rice gained his tasty surname (sometimes hyphenated) through the family-name combo of his parents, Catherine Spring and Stephen Rice.
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"Personalities of the Eighteenth Century," published in 1927 London, written by Grace Murray, with a foreword by Nigel Playfair.
"...whole fruitful valleys, being now everwhelmed and drowned with these most unfortunate and unseasonable salt waters..."
From 1607 England: "God's warning to his people of England, by the great overflowing of the waters or floudes, lately hapned in South-Wales."
At the time of the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, many believed them to be the work of God (as can be seen in the above pamphlet title) as a punishment for a "most wicked and pretended malice" by "traitors that ... practiced" some sort of "subversion of this beautiful kingdom [England]."
Scientists in later times felt the likely cause was a great storm but modern researchers, after reviewing contemporary reports and eyewitness accounts, now believe that the cause was a tsunami, perhaps triggered by an earthquake from an unstable fault off the coast of Ireland.
Survivors talked of water that rushed in too fast to be escaped on foot, that the day had been a sunny one, and that the sea receded before the wave arrived--on top of which sparks were seen. All of these descriptions--as well as modern physical evidence--seem to support the tsunami hypothesis.
But whatever the cause, the flood covered roughly 200 square miles of farmland and killed an estimated 3,000 people and an abundance of livestock--not only by drowning but by being trapped in trees for too long or for other reasons that led to, among other things, starvation:
In addition, the flood swept away so many homes and other buildings that some villages were entirely erased by the waters that ultimately rose
to a height of eight meters above sea level. Needless to say, the local economy was as devastated as the land and its communities. But for many, the event and their survival held important meaning:
At the time of the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, many believed them to be the work of God (as can be seen in the above pamphlet title) as a punishment for a "most wicked and pretended malice" by "traitors that ... practiced" some sort of "subversion of this beautiful kingdom [England]."Scientists in later times felt the likely cause was a great storm but modern researchers, after reviewing contemporary reports and eyewitness accounts, now believe that the cause was a tsunami, perhaps triggered by an earthquake from an unstable fault off the coast of Ireland.
"...[H]uge and mighty Hilles of water, tumbling one over another, in such sort as if the greatest mountaines in the world, has over-whelmed the lowe Valeys or Earthy grounds."
--From "God's warning..."
Survivors talked of water that rushed in too fast to be escaped on foot, that the day had been a sunny one, and that the sea receded before the wave arrived--on top of which sparks were seen. All of these descriptions--as well as modern physical evidence--seem to support the tsunami hypothesis.
But whatever the cause, the flood covered roughly 200 square miles of farmland and killed an estimated 3,000 people and an abundance of livestock--not only by drowning but by being trapped in trees for too long or for other reasons that led to, among other things, starvation:
"...[M]any that had great store of Corne and Grayne, in their Barnes and Garners in the morning had not within five hours space afterwards, so much as one Grayne to make them bread withall : Neither had they so much left as a lock of Hay or Straw to feede their catell which were left: Such was the great misery they susteyned by the fury of this watry Element, from which like, good Lord I beseech him of his infinite mercy and goodnes to deliver us all."
--From "God's warning..."
In addition, the flood swept away so many homes and other buildings that some villages were entirely erased by the waters that ultimately rose
to a height of eight meters above sea level. Needless to say, the local economy was as devastated as the land and its communities. But for many, the event and their survival held important meaning:"Thus god suffred many of them to escape his yrefull wrath, in hope of their amendment of life ...
"This mercylesse Water breaking into the Bosome of the firme Land, hath proved a fearfull punishment, as well to all other living Creatures: as also to all Mankinde: Which if it had not binne for the mercyfull promise of God, as the last dissolution of the World by Water, by the signe of the Rainbowe, which is still shewed us: we might have verily beleeved, this time had bin the very houre of Christ his comming: From which Element of Water, extended towardes us in this fearefull manner, good Lord deliver us all Amen."
--From "God's warning..." which can be read in its entirety here: Great Flood of 1607, where are also a few other contemporary reports, including one which featured in its original printing the woodcut above.
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