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Old and New London
… out to him by her handmaidens," and then, like a good kind woman and queen as she was, she would "send him to the … lashed with a Socratic wit, and invectives of a fiercer kind took vent in bold dithyrambics." Possibly, in the annual … it was customary at Christmas to perform plays of one kind or another, partly illustrative of the mysteries of the …
Old and New London
… Evelyn himself being appropriately clad in a dress of the kind when he wandered through the gallery at Whitehall, and …
Old and New London
… in which occur the two following lines: "Thanks, ye kind fates, for your last favour shown, For stealing Blood, …
Old and New London
… mercy they chose to let him go free. An adventure of this kind, in which the savages figure under the name of … the Regency, when a taste for Eastern monstrosities of the kind was so prevalent, was built a little Chinese bridge, …
Old and New London
… This institution, therefore, was the first of the kind which the "reforming" tendencies of the age may be said … body. The statutes of 1601 are interesting, as showing the kind of persons which, in the opinion of Lady Dacre's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… over £13 in assize rent from the whole manor, payments in kind including loads of osiers, 20 church scot hens, a sester … recorded. 10 In 1534 over 528 qr. of grain was paid in kind for all three parishes together, more than half barley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a stiff clay to a light sand and gravel; grain of every kind is grown, and the meadows and pastures are rich. The … was attended with so much success that works of a similar kind were erected at this place in 1615; and the large … and is plentifully supplied with provisions of every kind. A fair in honour of St. Hilda, originally granted to …
Old and New London
… is one of the most useful and extensive charities of the kind in the metropolis. The building was erected in 1752, …