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... Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, th...

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... by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adist... ...ain of her yet, she may have a finale in store. It’s true that I love wild Wales.’ 32 Celt and Saxon ‘And so do I’ Caroline raised her eyes to imagin... ... for his 137 George Meredith delight in songful gatherings, harps to wild Wales, his Cam- brian highlands, and not to England. You have not yet, thou...

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...he faithfu’ French, an’ twa-three mair; The auld prezentor, hoastin’ sair, Wales out the portions, An’ yirks the tune into the air Wi’ queer contortio...

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...in Cornwall, and thought we did it pretty well. And I have ridden in South Wales, which I can assure you isn’t an easy thing to do. But you mustn’t ex... ... partner, living on the allowance made him in some obscure corner of South Wales. CHAPTER 76 On Deportment Frank Tregear had come up to town at the en...

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..., dear! oh, dear, Richard, the M’Carthys are gone!” “Gone, where?” “Oh, to Wales. I knew nothing of it till they were off. Una and Fergus were missing... ...up the side of the mound, and, while the spy-glass was yet pointed full at Wales, had hold of a pair of stout legs, and with the words, “Keep a good l...

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...t, after vehement passionate en- treaties on the part of George, Prince of Wales, and even a demonstration of suicide, she was wrought upon to consent...

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...the large central room, and covers were laid for 200 guests. The Prince of Wales acknowledged the toast of his health and that of the Princess, the Du... ... recent death of Daniel Maclise) to which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales made allusion, and to which the president referred with the eloquence...

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...at poet’s fame, of rank and 13 Thomas de Quincey of genius. The Prince of Wales and John Milton; the first being then about sixteen years old, the ot... ...hat, having a public and a partisan interest, (the birth of that Prince of Wales, who was known twenty-seven years afterwards as the Pretender,) would...

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...supported by facts. The decline in the birth-rate is—so far as England and Wales goes—partly a real decline due to a decline in gross immorality, part... ... of figures that are generally given. They are the figures for England and Wales for two typical periods. Period 1846-1850 33 8 births ...

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...the present, that these Kentish Jenkins must have undoubtedly derived from Wales, and being a stock of some efficiency, they struck root and grew to w...

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...d leading all his knighthood threw the kings Carados, Urien, Cradlemont of Wales, Claudias, and Clariance of Northumberland, The King Brandagoras of L...

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...erend the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir Mulberry Hawk, of Mulberry Castle, North Wales, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Nicholas Nickleby , Esquire,...

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...for extra fatigue and bustle, that the first few weeks were to be spent in Wales, where the enjoy- ment of fine scenery might, it was hoped, be benefi...

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...erend the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir Mulberry Hawk, of Mulberry Castle, North Wales, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Nicholas Nickleby , Esquire,...

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...ATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY : the Fourth. (KING HENRY IV:) HENRY, Prince of Wales: (PRINCE HENRY:) and J OHN of Lancaster: LANCASTER : Sons of Henry... ... charge set down But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news; Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, Lea... ...CT I SCENE II: London. An apartment of the Prince’s. [Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAF F.] FALSTAFF: Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad? PRI... ...gall and pinch this Bolingbroke: And that same sword and buckler Prince of Wales, But that I think his father loves him not And would be glad he met w... ...take it already upon their sal vation, that though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, l... ... flock of wild geese, I’ll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales! PRINCE HENRY : Why, you whoreson round man, what’s the matter? FALS... ...ourt in the morning. That same mad fel low of the north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore th... ...iving, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? And bring him out that is ... ...d Severn hitherto, By south and east is to my part assign’d: All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore, And all the fertile land within that bound, ...

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...name that meant strangers, and we call them Welsh still, and their country Wales. They made a great many grand stories about their last brave chief, A... ...owned as their over-lord by all the kings of the remains of the Britons in Wales and Scotland. Once, eight of these kings came to meet him at Chester,... ...t was made prisoner by his brother, who sent him off to Cardiff Castle, in Wales, where he lived for twenty-eight years, and then died, and was buried... ...that time, the eldest son of the King of England has always been Prince of Wales. There was a plan for the little Prince Edward of Caernarvon being ma... ... prince against his father. Edward and his friends were hunted across into Wales; but they were tracked out one by one, and the Despencers were put to... ...great battle by land—so long, that the king’s eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, was sixteen years old. He is generally called the Black Prince—no on... .... They were Edward, Lionel, John, Edmund, and Thomas. Edward was Prince of Wales; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; John, Duke of Lancaster; Edmund, Duke of Y... ...as sent to fight with the Welsh: and with the king’s son, Henry, Prince of Wales—a brave boy of fifteen or sixteen—under his charge, to teach him the ... ...ud Percy so angry that he gave up the cause of King Henry, and went off to Wales, taking his prisoners with him; and there—be- ing by this time nearly...

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...: ‘My mother was a Glamorganshire woman. My father, I know, walked up from Wales, mending boots on his road for a livelihood. He is not a bad scholar,... ...e value of Lord Fleetwood’s estates in Kent and in Staffordshire and South Wales, and his house property in London. ‘He will have means to support her... ...ured: ‘Now she’s got the boy. There ‘s clasping and kissing. He’s all wild Wales to her.’ The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower besid... .... He promises to be a patron of Literature as well. His mother was a South Wales woman.’ ‘Could he be persuaded to publish a grand edition of the T ri... ...ht by the door of the shuttered shop, that Lord Fleetwood had gone down to Wales. ‘It means her having to wait,’ she said. ‘The minister has been to t... ...ers and voted against the Government, and then went down to his estates in Wales, being an excellent holder of the reins, whether on the coach box or ... ... jump and my lord’s paymaster here upon the scene. ‘My lady was to go down Wales way, sir.’ ‘That may be ordered after.’ ‘I ‘m to take my lady to my l... ... following letter to Chillon: ‘I am with Livia to-morrow. Janey starts for Wales to-mor- row morning, a voluntary exile. She pleaded to go back to tha... ...s lawyers, informing him of their receipt of a communica- tion dated South Wales, December 11th, and signed Owain Wythan; to the effect, that the birt...

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...use a sort of terror in us youthful spectators, and in which the Prince of Wales (his Royal Highness was a Foxite then) was represented as sitting alo...

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...r but God. It is divided into thirty-nine coun- ties, to which thirteen in Wales were added by Henry VIII., the first who distributed that principalit... ...WA S THE SON of Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and President of Wales, a person of great parts, and of no mean grace with the Queen; his mo...

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...verified my information, and there’s an end.” “And Magwitch – in New South Wales – having at last disclosed himself,” said Mr. Jaggers, “you will comp... ...e aware of that?” “Quite, sir.” “I communicated to Magwitch – in New South Wales – when he first wrote to me – from New South Wales – the caution that... ...cau- tion,” said Mr. Jaggers, looking hard at me; “I wrote it to New South Wales. He guided himself by it, no doubt.” “No doubt,” said I. “I have been... ...h Provis that you have received the explanation of Magwitch – in New South Wales?” “It came through Provis,” I replied. “Good day, Pip,” said Mr. Jagg... ...d Mr. Jaggers. “Y es,” I replied, “and his name is Provis – from New South Wales.” Even Mr. Jaggers started when I said those words. It was the slight... ...ase he carried. Among these, were the name of a banking-house in New South Wales where a sum of money was, and the designation of certain lands of con...

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... that of Prince Alfred; and Willie, still a little sulky, as the Prince of Wales. We were all in a buck basket about half-way between the swing and th... ...beg! Here is my beggary:– 1. Sellar’s Trial. 2. George Borrow’s Book about Wales. 3. My Grandfather’s Trip to Holland. 4. And (but this is, I fear, im...

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...ce of sea coast to be found within the limits of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Chan nel Islands, all summed up together...

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...tistics of marriage, so far as they have yet been obtained, in England and Wales. I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of thes...

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...ng English Fashions; this he, as hand-and- glove with an English Prince of Wales, is surely qualified to do. Carriages and saddles; top-boots and redi...

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...ame less distressing to her sister-in-law. Mary carried off her brother to Wales, and the Acton and Ray party dispersed, while Dr. and Mrs. Lucas came...

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...thing. He frowned peevishly as he went. Many men passed into the Prince of Wales or into Ellen’s. Morel, feeling sufficiently disagreeable to resist t...

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...es about his duties. I can make it up to him, as I know he wishes to go to Wales at Christmas. My wanderings will all be over then, and he may go for ...

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...g English Fashions; this he, as hand-and-glove with an En- glish Prince of Wales, is surely qualified to do. Carriages and saddles; top-boots and redi...

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...shall henceforth call Viscount Castlewood here, was H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, born in the same year and month with Frank, and just proclaimed at S... ...to arrest him in a midnight prank; he gave a dinner-party on the Prince of Wales’s birthday, which was within a fortnight of his own, and the twenty y... ...d him. Castlewood, I have said, was born in the same year as the Prince of Wales; had not a little of the Prince’s air, height, and figure; and, espec... ...hat which the leaders here were only talking about; to bring the Prince of Wales into the country openly in the face of all, under Bolingbroke’s very ... ... And galloping by the Prince’s side the Colonel explained to the Prince of Wales what his movements had been; who the friends were that knew of the ex... ...bove stairs, and spoke confi- dently of having him proclaimed as Prince of Wales and heir to the throne before that day was over. The Bishop had enter... ...ur again; and had the King not chosen to ride to Castlewood, the Prince of Wales might have slept at St. James’s.” “‘Sdeath! gentlemen,” says the Prin... ...greatest names of this kingdom were as- sembled to accompany the Prince of Wales, who might have been the acknowledged heir of the throne, or the poss...

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...usand acres, in a ring fence in Norfolk; a county in Scotland, a castle in Wales, a villa at Richmond, a corner house in Belgrave Square, and eighty t... ... uniform is now. The last time we were out was in 1803, when the Prince of Wales reviewed us, and when we wore French gray jackets, leathers, red moro... ... victory over the English fleet under the command of Admiral the Prince of Wales, whose ship, the “Richard Cobden,” of 120 guns, was taken by the “Bel... ...ip (because, forsooth, she was the daughter of the Minister, and Prince of Wales’s great friend, the Earl of Portansherry) thought fit to reject. I do...

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...ntry into great constituencies such as London or Ulster or Wessex or South Wales, each return- ing a score or more of members, and the establishment o... ...t by the representa- tives of, let us say, twenty great provinces, Ulster, Wales, Lon- don, for example, each returning from twelve to thirty mem- ber...

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...ing away from. I’ll push onward for the hill-country to-morrow. I’ll go to Wales.” It was with some pains that he placed before himself the undeniable... ..., gave her up gently to both her parents, and went out. But he went not to Wales. No, he never went to Wales. He went straightway for another stroll a...

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...els too?” asked the Canadian. “Yes, mussels of certain waters in Scotland, Wales, Ire- land, Saxony, Bohemia, and France.” “Good! For the future I sha...

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...wn, over the various advertise- ments of “A most desirable Estate in South Wales”; “To Parents and Guardians”; and a “Capital season’d Hunter.” Fanny,...

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...ard of Oniton? Do come and see us—right away from ev- erywhere, up towards Wales.” “What a change!” said Margaret. But the change was in her own voice... ... and make it an English stream, and the sun, sinking over the Sentinels of Wales, was straight in their eyes. Having picked up another guest, they tur... ...h laughter, and for the second time the sun retreated towards the hills of Wales. Henry, who was more tired than he owned, came up to her in the castl... ..., and lulled by the murmurs of the river that descended all the night from Wales. She felt her- self at one with her future home, colouring it and col...

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...is about the easiest thing to draw. By the time you have drawn twenty one wales and written “William I.—1066 1087—twenty one years” twenty one times... ...lborough House they saw a crowd gathering and were told that the Prince of Wales was about to drive out, so they stopped to get a sight Mark T wain 1... ...public school, we select the following mosaic: Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599. In the chapter headed “Intellectual” I find a great num ber...

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...foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Co...

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... has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gael... ...of Japan to be uneatable – a staggering pretension. So, when the Prince of Wales’s mar- riage was celebrated at Mentone by a dinner to the Mentonese, ...

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...y,” with a portrait of the proboscis. —That sad little rake, the Prince of Wales, in- vited me to dinner. We were all lions and recherchés. There was ...