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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and the assistant being in the way, he knocked him on the head with a life preserver. He was taken, but his 2 … but at last the governor of Canton took it into his head without the slightest pretext to seize a vessel which …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… The wheels passed over his neck and literally cut his head off, severing it entirely from the body. I afterwards … under the wheels, which passed over his eyes, dividing his head. Death was of course instantaneous but it was horrible. … times, to a seat in a civil engineer's office, where my head might be worked as well as my hands. I should not by any …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… landowner. Burgh Seal. The town is situated at the head of the bay of Wick in the Moray Frith, and on the north … bay is the boldly-projecting promontory called Noss Head, on which are the ancient castles of Sinclair and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the village's main public house has been the Maid's Head, 78 near the north-east side of the green, so named from … in the 1850s. 91 In the 1890s the green outside the Maid's Head still accommodated the traditional village feast, held …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the two departments was between 60 and 70, taught by the head and a part-qualified woman assistant. 19 In the years up … up throughout the war. 27 During the winter of 1942-3 the head, as well as having no cleaner, lost one assistant when … still at Wicken a month after V.E. Day. 32 Another new head tried to make a fresh start at the end of the war but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of late 13th-century date, has hollow-chamfered jambs and head, externally almost entirely modern, and a chamfered … 13th-century date, has rebated and chamfered jambs and head almost entirely modern, and a chamfered rear arch. In … In chancel in N. wall, rough chamfered jambs and sill, head forming part of window ledge, apparently ancient. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 53 pupils, arousing local opposition. 2 Having lost eight head teachers successively since 1976, 3 the school was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… but after his death in 1813 it was moved to the Maid's Head public house. 62 In 1720 and later the court barred from …