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Old and New London
… the patron saint of the parish in which he was found. The lad grew up shrewd and industrious, eventually became rich, …
Old and New London
… old bencher is said to have once dismissed a troublesome lad who had come from the dial-maker's for a motto, and who …
Old and New London
… The murderer heard him, and pursued him upstairs; but the lad, fastening his sheets to a bed, let himself down out of …
Old and New London
… to luckless Amy Robsart; Lord Ambrose Dudley, a mere lad; Lord Guildford, the weak youth who had married Lady Jane … however, to let Guildford be proclaimed king, and the lad cried petulantly at her firmness. Mary's friends fast …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Housman, the editor of Manilius and author of A Shropshire Lad, became Kennedy professor of Latin, and in him Cambridge …
Old and New London
… with his penknife. Excited by his curiosity, he asked the lad what he was doing, when, with great simplicity of manner, but with courtesy, the lad replied, 'I am cutting old Foxe's head.' Foxe was the …
Old and New London
… Earls of Craven, who came up to London a poor Yorkshire lad, and was bound apprentice to a draper. His eldest son …