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Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
… See N.E.D. for references as to dudgeon being of maple, wild-ash root and boxwood. Bordeaux. A maker of hures, woolly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… perhaps roofed with clay tiles, was regarded as a den for wild beasts. Similar chambers were excavated midway along the …
Old and New London
… place where big salmon were to be found, and plenty of wild boars were to be met with, was probably his highest … of London before the Christian era passed away like the wild beasts they fought and slew, and their very names have … protected on the north by a vast forest, full of deer and wild boars, and which, even as late as the reign of Henry …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… has been made on the fourth. Silvanus was a god of the wild, to be propitiated when encroachments were made upon his … god, with lentoid eyes and drooping moustache, framed in a wild mass of flowing locks like the Bath Gorgon. Traces of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the nature of a boundary and no doubt meant to keep out wild animals as well as to keep in the domestic animals. At …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the name Alchester has been the subject of much wild speculation by earlier antiquaries. Camden's suggestion …
A History of the County of Somerset
… But it is not itself classical. It reveals a spirit of wild freedom which is neither strictly Greek nor Roman, and … Transactions, 1748, p. 409 (text fairly correct, but wild emendations); Collinson, i. 12; Warner, Illustrations, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… reasons, and partly because, there being already many wild spirits in the Council, the matter will be made worse by …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… also numberless big birds such as cranes (?) both tame and wild, geese tame and wild, ducks, peacocks, partridges, pheasants, and other …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… them, for money cannot be found in sufficient quantity, wild work is apprehended. Moreover, in any case, it is …