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A History of the County of Essex
… The first, meaning 'goose pasture', no doubt refers to the wild fowl which frequented the marshes. 35 The second …
Old and New London
… HALL OF THE SOUTHWARK "TRAIN-BANDS," IN 1813. Rough and wild as the spot appears when the ditch is filled at high …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… on the south is the largest; and though narrow, bleak, and wild at its western extremity, where it is called the forest … 2000 and 3000 feet in height, and gives to the locality a wild, and in some parts a romantic, appearance; the Dee runs … The moors abound with grouse and a great variety of wild-fowl, and the rivers and mountain streams with trout; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a brick facade with terracotta panels by James William Wild. The site had been purchased with the intention of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 1980. Elliot, Daniel Giraud. The life and habits of wild animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf. London: …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Plates, shewing the Manner of Trussing all Kinds of Game, wild and tame Fowls, &c., as also the Order of setting out …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Wolds: the surface is mountainous, and the scenery wild and romantic; the soil is various, on the higher lands …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… dark seedy fruit of the shrub, Ribes nigrum, which grows wild across northern Europe and Asia [Masefield et al …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… name for hemp dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum, also known as wild cotton and Indian hemp. It was apparently valued by the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the OED suggests, because they were 'almost the commonest wild fruit in England ... spoken of proverbially as the type … tame blackbirds or other song birds with newly caught wild ones in the same cage in which 'divers troughs [are] … hemp seed and some with water, that the tame teaching the wild to eat ... they will in twelve or fourteen days grow …