Note 4 ( return ) [ Since the rest of the historians now extant give this Demetrius thirteen years, and Josephus only eleven years, Dean Prideaux does not amiss in ascribing to him the mean number twelve.]
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The greatest joy of earth you then would know.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Emilie had spent her childhood on the family estate, enjoying the abundance which suffices for the joys of early youth; her lightest wishes had been law to her sisters, her brothers, her mother, and even her father.
— from The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac

In January of each year a joint committee of conference and arbitration, consisting of five members of each—the Union and the Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' Association—shall be appointed and serve for one year.
— from 30,000 Locked Out: The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago by James C. Beeks

The courier set out from Montreal in January of each year, travelling on foot or snow-shoes with his mail bag slung over his shoulder.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

The Pardon of St. Jean du Doigt takes place on the twenty-fourth of June of each year.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

6d. was provided for in the event of books not being returned in the January of each year.
— from Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen

I did not take three days to do so, though the third day may be just over ere you learn my decision.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But when you have the spirit of true religion, when you can think of God as your only happiness, when you are not afraid of the joys of eternity, you will think it a dull task to read any other books.
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

He did not like the evangelical clergy, who so greatly increased in number towards the latter end of his reign in this locality, and, at their expense, he perpetrated the single jest of eighty years.
— from Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager by James Aspinall

42 Bolton (Lancs.), 137 Bond, Mr F., on Southwell Cathedral, 9 ; Westminster Abbey, 9 , 134-5 ; age of church towers, 108 ; Irish round towers, 121 ; size of churches, 134-5 ; entasis of spires, 240 Bone-caves, 308 , 411 , 417 Bones, in churches, 198-201 ; as talismans, 321 {501} Bonner, Mr A., on place-names, 32 , 43 Bonner, Bishop, and miracle plays, 183 Booty, Rev. C. S., on Rudstone menhir, 43 Borromeo, St Charles, on church-building, 241 Bosbury (Hereford), 123 Boscawen-ûn (Cornwall), 256 Bos frontosus , 480 Bosham (Sussex), Roman villa, 9 , 495 ; deflected chancel, 230 ; pole in, 496 Bos longifrons , 476 , 478 , 479 , 480 Bos primigenius , 476 , 477 , 479 , 480 Bos priscus , 475 Boston (Lincs.), mayor chosen in church, 143 ; discoveries at, 444 Botontine (= surveyor’s mound), 61 Bottesford (Lincs.), 350 Boulder Clay, 16 , 36 , 85 , 110 , 406 Boundaries, barrows on, 69 ; treaties concerning, 338 “Bournes” (= intermittent springs), 96 Bovata (= oxgang), 456 Bow, antiquity of word, 387 ; kinds of, 387-90 Bowman, J. E., experiments on yews, 365 Bowstaves, statutes concerning, 390 , 391 ; from the churchyard yew, 394 Brabourne (Kent), 376 , 379 Bradford-on-Avon (Wilts.), 115 , 171 , 172 Brading (I. of Wight), 165 Bradwell (Essex), 23 Brady, J., on English yew timber, 392 Brahmans, the, and praying towards the East, 217 ; respect for fossil ammonites, 307 Braintree (Essex), 454 Braitmaier, Miss M., on gable ornaments, 441 Bramber (Sussex), 78 Bramfield (Suffolk), 123 “Brandgruben,” 276 Brand, John, on tithe-barns, 176 ; Birmingham church, 211 ; vulgar rites, 243 ; curious burial, 245 ; funeral feasts, 319 ; burial on North side, 343 ; Edinburgh burial-ground, 351 Branks (= scolds’ bridles), 163 Branscombe (Devon), stone in churchyard, 41 ; headstones, 346 Branxton (Northumberland), 354 Bratton Hill (Wilts.), 433 , 434 Bray, W., on church porch at Wotton, 154 Bread, stored in churches, 173 Breedon (Leicester), 104 Brenchley (Kent), 52 Brent Pelham (Herts.), stocks, 165 ; deflected chancel, 230 Brent Tor (Devon), 129 Bretasche, or guard-house, 53 Bride-ales,
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson