A political and scientific writer (Athenæum and Reform Clubs; Castle Combe, Chippenham).
Castle Combe, Wilts, and assumed name and arms of Scrope.
She showed herself to me in all her glory, and then in a minute was gone again; for she entered into a many-windowed cloud castle and roamed from room to room.
A few minutes later he abruptly asked permission to take me up a mountain to show me a castle next morning, and his mother agreed, pointing out how extremely profitable it would be for me.
The little boy rejoiced; he had apparently wanted to go up to that castle for a long while.
At the terminus of the old Indian carrying place on the Hudson, now called Albany, the Dutch, under Hendrick Christiensen, in 1614, built Fort Nassau on Castle Island.
It was built on the site of old Indian Te-hon-de-lo-ga, the lowercastle of the Mohawks.
A pressing invitation to spend some days at the castle had been cordially given to all.
She springs up the hill whereon the lords of the castle once administered justice--that hill which commands the land far and wide, and from which can be last caught the glimpse of the westering sun.
He built two spacious and convenient residences on the Mohawk river, known as Johnson Castle and Johnson Hall.
As we stepped into the vast enclosed court of the castle I got a shock; for the first thing I saw was the stake, standing in the center, and near it the piled fagots and a monk.
The first of these historical Black Assizes occurred on the occasion of the gaol delivery at the Castle of Cambridge in Lent, 1522.
The stress of the epidemic is shown by the fact that the churchyard was insufficient for the burials, many of the dead having been buried in the Castle Yard and in Clarke's Green[720].
Castle Cluny' must be your castle, too, as long as you can put up with us.
Castle Cluny" had a feeling of having been caught holding a guilty suspicion; and when Stellar Bahrr ran her through with steely eyes she felt herself blushing with surprise and chagrin.
I can't have leisure to settle anything by myself, it seems, even with the lord and lady of the castle leaving me in full seclusion here.
That night York sat alone on the porch of "Castle Cluny" until far toward morning, beginning at last to fight out with himself the great battle of his life.
On the evening after Thelma left town she cork-screwed over to "Castle Cluny" for a friendly chat with Laura.
Jerry had reread her letter in the seclusion of her room at "Castle Cluny.
Although she overflowed the town with her sunny presence, her lameness had kept her nearer to "Castle Cluny" than her brother had comprehended.
York said their like was not to be had this side of old 'Castle Cluny' on the ancient Kingussie holding of the invincible Clan Macpherson's forebears.
Thus it was that Jerry came in to "Castle Cluny" at high noon the picture of health and high spirits, shaming Laura Macpherson's doubt and sorrow which her morning had brought her.
Yea, she shall roost here in my coop till the little girl gets clear to 'Castle Cluny.
Not a pennyweight this side of old 'Castle Cluny' in Scotland, so far as I know," York replied.
Eugene took the proffered cigar and the seat on the side porch of the hotel that commanded a view of the street clear to "Castle Cluny.
There were other guests at "Castle Cluny," and Thelma and Jerry shared the same room.
The following day, at noon, the castle was delivered into the hands of the French, who placed a garrison in it.
There were mounted in the castle and dependent works, at the time of the French attacks, one hundred and eighty-six cannon.
The castle of San Juan de Ulloa lies half a mile east and to seaward of the city of Vera Cruz, which it commands, and from which it is separated by water averaging from fifteen to twenty feet deep.
It is built on the inner extremity of a reef that extends from it a little over a mile to the eastward, in the general prolongation of the line connecting the castle and the town.
I should so like to have another sunny morning hour on the old castle terrace, high above the green sea of forest.
Valentin opened the door of his study and beckoned the forester to follow him, but he was evidently not as much interested in news from the castle as in the question which he repeated with anxiety.
The ruins were at least picturesque, but the attempts to patch up this part of the castle only brought into stronger relief the decay of the building.
The memory of the sunny morning dream in the ruinous old castle was not for the ear of the young lady who could so coolly tutor and criticise her little friend.
I have just heard that two rooms in the castle have been prepared for guests by your orders.
The evening was at hand, and the entire castle was filled with the activity wont to precede some important festivity.
She meant to be present at its consecration, and came from Berkheim to Castle Steinrueck for the purpose.
To the Countess is left a large income withCastle Berkheim, where she has always resided; all the other estates go to Hertha, whose guardian I am to be.
This is no "castle building," if there be the least affinity between the results of great things and small ones.
The old Castle Tavern, Bristol, was burned on Thursday, the 7th inst.
The line has been cleared from Castle street to Long Acre on the east.
And he went up alone to the king's castle and saw the woman.
Well, take our boy, and be with him at thecastle when I come.
On Sunday, the 30th August, the travellers inspected a remarkable rock basin, known as the Buller of Buchan, and dined at Slains Castlewith the Countess of Errol.
On the 13th October Boswell informed Mr. Temple that on lately visiting Lowther Castle he received back his wig.
And the recent escapade at Lowther Castle might have shown him that sentiments of respect were unassociated with his lordship’s friendship.
They posted for Glasgow, inspecting en route the ancient castle of Dumbarton.
On his route Boswell heard that in the castle of Corte were detained three murderers, a woman and two men; he gratified his curiosity by conversing with them.
On a dewy May morning, two years after that farewell scene in the castle chapel, young Frederick rode over the drawbridge of the fortress on the height beside the Kinzig Valley.
At last, when Gero set him down again at the castle gate, Puck clenched his little fist, and growled, "I will pay you back for this.
More than a thousand years have rolled away since a castlelooked down cheerfully from a height amid the Franconian plains into the well-watered Kinzig Valley, with its pleasant villages and towns.
Maude's only unmarried sister, Gertrude, was about to be united to a brave young knight, whom she had chosen in preference to a powerful but universally dreaded Earl, whose castle stood at no great distance.
At last the castle clock struck twelve, and immediately soft music sounded in the distance; it came nearer and nearer, and soon floated up the winding stair.
Then he built a crystalcastle right in front of it, and brought home as his bride a beautiful water-fairy from the neighbouring river, Elbe.
A sunny terrace of the castle hill became the last resting-place of the Countess Matilda.
Still more anxiously she pressed on till the tall forest trees hid the castle from her sight.
In several places openings had been cut, affording a view of the blue water down the Channel in the direction of Calshot Castle and towards Spithead and the entrance of Portsmouth harbour.
In response to Domhnall’s request for a story, Mac Coisse mentioned the names of a large number of tales including one called The Plunder of the Castle of Maelmilscotach.
In it Mac Coisse described, under the form of an allegory, the plundering of his castle by the king’s kinsmen.
Herne's oak in Windsor Forest and the monarchy in Windsor Castle grew on the same terms.
He is the giant of French romance, who keeps the lovely and uneasy lady locked up in Castle Matrimony.
Then we shall meet at Castle balls, and you shall lead me out for a rigadoon like a mere stranger.
But the English Viceroy, though outwardly perturbed, was laughing in the Castle while the ignorant people jigged.
Sirr is organising his paid spies into a battalion who are to dwell at the Castle like pampered pets.
There's a report at the Castle that that crazy idiot Tone, to whom you were always much too kind, has succeeded in persuading the French to take up his cudgels.
Now we must be separating, or we'll have the Castle spies on us.
Government agents were always conveniently turning up ready and willing to purchase mortgages and notes of hand, which were duly stored in the coffers of the Castle as a means of prospective coercion by-and-by.
In the first place, I have a castle perched so high up in the air, that the eagles, even in their highest soar, appear but as wrens below.
Belem Castle had been sold, and he now lived at Richmond, as hospitable as ever, and was considered a great addition to the neighbourhood.
He can live in the castle if he likes, or go to the devil.
That was where my cousin Dick used to get out of the castle after Uncle Jonathan had shut the gate.
Beside this rather dismal, rather effeminate man, who recoiled from a worm, who grew giddy on the castle wall, who bore so helplessly the weight of his misfortunes, she felt herself a head and shoulders taller in cheerful and sterling courage.
Outbreaks of loud speech came up the staircase; he heard the old stones of the castle crack in the frosty night with sharp reverberations, and the bed complained under his tossings.
The rusty fragment was sucked at once over the fall, came up again far on the right hand, leaned ever more and more in the same direction, and disappeared under the hanging grasses on the castle side.
It was easy to reach it from the castle side, for the river ran in this part very quietly among innumerable boulders and over dam-like walls of rock.
Above and below thecastle the river crooked like the letter "S.
There was an onslaught against him, and he was rescued by the Roman chief captain, who took him into the Castle of Antonia which the Romans used to guard the Temple area.
On the steps of the castlehe was allowed to address the people, ch.
