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... could not give up the ball, and Meta found that she must go; but both the Normans spent a quiet evening with Dr. May and Ethel. Norman May had a bad ...

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...that event the ancient Saxon system of tenure was laid aside, and that the Normans, wherever they had lands granted to them, introduced the feodal sys... ...ature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally held his lands ent...

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...the refectory, when the schol- ars were at meat, to show the Saxon boys we Normans were not afraid of an Abbot. It was that very Saxon Hugh tempted me... ...wn from the oak wood above the King’s Hill yonder, and cried out that some Normans were driving off the swine there. “‘Norman or Saxon,” said I, “we m... ...“Better the devil we know than the devil we know not, till we can pack you Normans home.” And so, too, said his Sax- ons; and they laughed as we drove... ...ard. ‘I let the Saxons go their stubborn way, but when my own men-at-arms, Normans not six months in England, stood up and told me what was the custom... ...or thy life, well knowing that if any harm befell thee from his Saxons thy Normans would slay him without remedy. And this his Sax- ons know. Is it tr... ...e Aquila. “If I know men, thou art more faith- ful unsworn than a score of Normans I could name. Take Dallington, and join Sir Richard to fight me tom... ...ur,” said Hugh. “When De Aquila spoke even now, in the Hall, of Saxons and Normans, I saw Gil- bert write on a parchment, which he kept beside the Man... ...he kept beside the Manor- roll, that De Aquila said soon there would be no Normans left in England if his men-at-arms did their work aright. “ “‘Bones... ...before the Word of the Lord had come to me. A walled fortress possessed by Normans; in the midst a forty-foot tide-well out of which to remove secretl...

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...sians and Macedonians had it for a flash. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others, had it for a time. The Turks have it at this day, t...

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...and that extremely inferior country, England, which was con- quered by the Normans and brought under the feudal sys- tem. But so soon as these old tra...

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...ted for its scenery and its monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease that im- mense de...

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...always call them Lord Danes. He made friends himself with the Northmen, or Normans, who had settled in France, and married Emma, the daughter of their... ...f them rose out of the king—who had been brought up in Normandy—liking the Normans better than the English. They really were much cleverer and more se... ...of En- gland. This filled William with anger. He called all his fight- ing Normans together, fitted out ships, and sailed across the English Channel t... ...t won a great battle over these enemies when he heard that William and his Normans had landed, and he had to hurry the whole length of En- gland to me... ... was his own standard, with a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going ... ...he heads of the English. Harold himself was pierced by one in the eye. The Normans charged the fence again, and broke through; and, by the time night ... ...t shows that a great deal had been taken from the English and given to the Normans. The king built castles, with immensely thick, strong walls, and lo... ...lls, and loop-hole windows, whence to shoot arrows; and here he placed his Normans to keep the English down. But the Normans were even more unruly tha... ...zags, and all manner of patterns round them. In the end, the coming of the Normans did the English much good, by brightening them up and making them l...

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...tons by the intrusion of the Saxons, and afterwards by the conquest of the Normans, that, through vicissitude of times, and after a discontinuance alm...

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...glish condiment to rectify the flavour of the stew. Now the number of Saxe-Normans riding out to meet and greet the Welshmen is declared to have not e...

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...blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now animated with one noblest...

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...n tongues came together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step b...

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... to the Saxons and Britons that were then inhabitants of this country. The Normans that came with him and helped to conquer, and all descended from th...

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... by holding them out relief in their necessity? It is you who are mean—you Normans—not we of the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for g...

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...instruction had, Like them to fight far off or charge at hand, All valiant Normans by Lord Robert lad, The native Duke of that renowned land, Two bish... ...oble look, And more than manlike wrath her face o’erspread, There the fell Normans, Guichard there forsook The field, till then who never feared nor f... ...en all was lost; CXII Wonders that day wrought noble Tisipherne, The hardy Normans all he overthrew; The Flemings fled before the champion stern, Gern...