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A History of the County of Middlesex
… (1864-5); when bought by the baroness in 1857, it was a 'huge mountain of refuse' with a row of small houses on one …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… January 1832 reached 6,000 in one week. 95 In that spring huge sums were said to be spent while thousands of paupers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… where the water intervenes, appear to be blended into one huge metropolis. Oxton Hill lies to the south of Claughton. …
Old and New London
… In the fore courtyard, by the French ambassador's house, a huge grave, eighteen feet long and twelve feet broad, was … in its usefulness; and at each corner of the bridge is a huge block of masonry, propos of nothing, a well-known … the tortoise hung her coat of mail; Not far from some huge shark's devouring head The flying-fish their finny …
Old and New London
… peeping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's headand …
Survey of London
… yard. The most important undertaking was the erection of a huge corrugated ironand-steel marine engineering shop, …
Survey of London
… The business prospered and the younger Johnson amassed a huge personal fortune. When his only child, Anne, married … for the Royal African Company, having been tempted by the huge salary offered for the three-year posting. The primary …
Old and New London
… will simply state that the brewery contains seven or eight huge vats, one of which holds 1,500 barrels of liquid, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… are scattered in confused heaps in every direction, and huge masses of rugged cliffs, threatening to detach … the rest of the British territories by constructing that huge work called Offa's Dyke, extending northward from the … for about a mile, and passes within a few yards of the huge upright stone, twelve feet high and ten broad, called …
A New History of London
… cloth of tissue, of the colours of crimson and silver, huge plumes of red and white feathers on their heads and … in liveries of the colour of the chariot, carrying huge flamboys in their hands, which, with the torches, gave …