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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the monk of Canterbury, so often quoted before, who was an eye witness of this calamity, as follows: Three small houses … seems to have been made that those confined here might be eye witnesses of those sacred solemnities, which they were … what he had heard many years before he died, from an eye witness of undoubted credit, whom the learned archdeacon …
Old and New London
… Gray's Inn, gave him a wound with his cane in or near the eye, which, according to the deposition of the surgeon, was … upon Holborn. The first object which catches the eye as we look about for particulars on which to comment, is … towards Southampton House, the tear started into his eye, but he instantly wiped it away." Southampton House was …
Old and New London
… there the choicest society." Our often-quoted Pepys had an eye to the "choicest society," and on the 4th of May, 1662, … thinking of very different things. Sir Thomas More had his eye on heaven. Mrs. Alice had hers on "the right fair house …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… with a piece of marsh and a fir ground, called Thornham Eye, wherein the chapel stood, butting on Cley channel to the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… as CURIOUS Sources: Newspapers, Tradecards. Hook and eye [hukes and eyes; hucks and eys; hucks & eyes; houkes and … eys; hookes and eyes; hookes & eyes; hookes & eas; hook & eye; hoocks and eyes; hoocks & eyes; hoockes and eyes; hoks … consisting of a hook, usually of flattened wire, and an eye, or wire loop on which the hook catches, one of the two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… of 1279 suggest that settlements existed at Horningsea, Eye Hall (33) and Clayhithe. Habitation around Eye Hall had been considerably reduced by 1810, the date of … Map. The present straight road running in the vicinity of Eye Hall may have replaced a winding road but any alteration …