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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Salisbury College until her first title had become a quaint anachronism. Another influx of students followed the …
Old and New London
… funds. It killed him. There is something pathetic in the quaint account which Fuller gives of the close of his … to shake the light fantastic toe, and cutting quite as quaint a figure as there. It was in Ely House that Sir Edward …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… long ago is it since that was written ? 1760; it is very quaint writing. 622. Have you ascertained, either from the …
Survey of London
… World War on account of its old-fashioned interior, the quaint slogans on the shopfront and, until recent years, the …
Old and New London
… He was the author of the Life of Archbishop Williams, a quaint and learned work, half made up of quotations, like …
Old and New London
… not only by its many gable-ended houses adorned with quaint carvings and plaster stamped in patterns, but also by … his shameless mistresses and unworthy favourites. In that quaint room over Temple Bar the firm still preserve the dusty … resort of Pepys, who frequently mentions it in his quaint and graphic way. No. 37 (Hoare's Bank), south, is well …
Old and New London
… in Westminster, upon which Fuller remarks, in his quaint way, "It giveth the best light when one carrieth his … in his "New Timon," where he had spoken flippantly of. "A quaint farrago of absurd conceits, Out-babying Wordsworth and … a collection of essays immortal as the language, full of quaint and tender thoughts and gleaming with cross-lights of …
Old and New London
… feast on the same day yearly to all their tenants. What a quaint picture might be made of the churchwardens in the old …