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Old and New London
… of coal, so learned engineers were not wanting to foretell how the projected tunnel must necessarily fall in from the mere weight of the traffic in the streets above; and how the adjacent houses would be not only shaken to their … at the side of each box, points either to E or F, to show how near the india-rubber reservoirs are to being either …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… known by the several names of Low and High Galernel How, or as lately called "St. Catherine's," Knotts, Brow Head … there is payable as such modus for Low and High Galernel How, or St. Catherine's, the yearly sum of 1s. 9d., for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… appointment of Gate, a layman, to the mastership showed how far the old order of things had been left behind. With … to be spent on the purchase of advowsons. 75 Pittis tells how the Doctor was asked one day why he did not marry a young gentlewoman to get heirs by and how he replied that 'truly he had an old one (University …
Survey of London
… science. Professor Hale Bellot 84 gives a diagram showing how the different rooms were allocated among the various …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in 1525. 88 How much longer it functioned is not known, but it had …
Survey of London
… was graphically reported by Horace Walpole, who describes how many of the family, servants and guests jumped from the …
Survey of London
… 187890. No. 23 No. 23 was built under a sub-lease to John How, carver, in 1730 and first occupied in 1735 or 1736. 115 …
Old and New London
… and listening to the joyous laughter of her young progeny, how little could she have anticipated the strange fate which … to the 'Cranes,' in the Vintry, And see there the gimblets how they make their entry.' Ben Jonson, "The Devil is an … all Spanish wines two-pence the quart: it is no matter how the subject suffers, so we get and gaine by it. Now to …
The Barrington Papers
… therefore be glad to have their Lordships' directions how they are to be disposed of: whether they are to be sent …