CHAPTER XIX PEINE FORTE ET DURE For many minutes, fifteen, twenty perhaps, Colonel John sat motionless in the chair into which he had sunk, his eyes fixed on the flames of the candles that, so still was the night, burned steadily upwards.
— from The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
T.D.M. March 1, 1909. CONTENTS Page I A FEW GENERALITIES 1 II IN AND ABOUT LONDON 11 III A PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY 26 IV A RUN THROUGH THE MIDLANDS 40 V THE BORDER TOWNS, SHREWSBURY AND LUDLOW 58 VI LONDON TO LAND'S END 80 VII FROM CORNWALL TO SOUTH WALES 100 VIII THROUGH BEAUTIFUL WALES 115 IX CHESTER TO THE "HIELANDS" 137 X THROUGH HISTORIC SCOTLAND 156 XI FROM EDINBURGH TO YORKSHIRE 173 XII IN OLD YORKSHIRE 190 XIII A ZIG-ZAG TRIP FROM YORK TO NORWICH 206 XIV PETERBOROUGH, FOTHERINGHAY, ETC 221 XV THE CROMWELL COUNTRY; COLCHESTER 235 XVI THE HAUNTS OF MILTON AND PENN 247
— from British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy
Pg 221 XIV PETERBOROUGH, FOTHERINGHAY, ETC The hundred miles of road that we followed from Norwich to Peterborough has hardly the suggestion of a hill, though some of it is not up to the usual English standard.
— from British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy
XVI PHYLLIS From earliest childhood the Hugh whom it gave Ramsey such rapture to nickname had unconsciously worn the dim frown that seemed to her so droll because at once so scrutinous yet so appealing.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
49 IX A Prisoner 60 X The Siege of Sur 69 XI Att the Terrible 80 XII Companions in Misery 85 XIII Further Progress 93 XIV Old Friends 101 XV Plans for Escape
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley
108 XV PLANS FOR ESCAPE “We can make the alcohol in a few days in my laboratory,” Cabot wrote, “but it will not do for us to escape too precipitately, lest our plans be discovered and blocked.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley
[pounds], for every yardland and the seid other 8 yardlands being worth but after the rate of x the yardland, it is ordered that the said 8 yardlands shall from henceforth pay in all levies but after the rate of x pounds for every yardland and the said 22 yardlands after the rate of xx pounds for every yardland, unless the owners of the said 22 yardlands shall att the next sessions uppon convenient notice hereof to them given shewe cause to the contrarie.”
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney
"YOU MUST GO BACK" XX.— PLANS FOR ESCAPE XXI.—
— from Blackthorn Farm by Arthur Applin
CHAPTER XX. PLANS FOR ESCAPE.
— from Blackthorn Farm by Arthur Applin
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