Search
A Survey of London
… all the other children got ten. 'Thus,' says John with a quaint humour, 'was I condemned and paid five pounds for …
Old and New London
… several times reprinted. Among them we find the following quaint titles, suggestive of old nicknames, lucky shots, and …
Survey of London
… a five-storeyed building with a stone front designed in a quaint 'Art Nouveau' manner. The ground storey has been … of Woods in March 1902, the Crown surveyor found them 'quaint in character and rather bald'. He persuaded the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Fanshawe, esq; who died in 1763, aged 59. It has this quaint or rather useful admonition: Stop and reflect awhile …
Survey of London
… except on the flat lower surfaces of the staircase towers. Quaint cast reliefs of items to be purchased within, from …
Survey of London
… 1885 by the architect Harold Peto, who may have added the quaint bow window. Music returned to Albert Place with the … the studio as a wide chamber with a vaulted roof and quaint old carvings, something between a baronial hall and a …
A History of the County of Worcester
… the wood and heathland of Habberley Valley, broken by a quaint peak called the Pekket Rock. Low Habberley is a hamlet …
Old and New London
… pencil." Opposite to the entrance of Willesden Lane is a quaint-looking old building, mainly of wood, with high …
A History of the County of Surrey
… rentals were made. This and London Street are full of quaint houses, some timbered, some built of wood. Next to the …