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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Sir William Douglas assaulting Edward's camp by night, nearly succeeded in killing the king: on the failure …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… written in 1796, and in an anonymous account of One Night spent in the Condemned Hole, York Castle, in April …
Survey of London
… from "8 of the clock in the morning until almost 9 at night without either meat or drink." 196 He was finally … Morter; and all this (as a Toadestoole groweth in a night) to serve until a Model for a Solid Building (to stand …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and numbers of wild duck, wigeon and teal, which spend the night on the flooded marshes away from the coast, rest on the … Bridgwater prior to 1850 (Yarrell, iv. 192, ed. 4). 133. Night-Heron. Nycticorax griseus (Linn.). An accidental … As these animals often travel many miles during the night they may occur unexpectedly in any of the streams. Six …
A History of the County of Somerset
… me the males may be caught flying round birch trees at night; he took a dozen in Leigh Woods on the night of August 3, 1892 Ephyra porata, F.; E. punctaria, L.; … ictericana, Haw. Bath, Bristol, etc.; flies at night on railway banks ; not common Bactra lanceolana, Hb. …