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Page 101 - And in his days came first three ships of the Northmen from the land of robbers. The reve (30) then rode thereto, and would drive them to the king's town; for he knew not what they were; and there was he slain. These were the first ships of the Danish men that sought the land of the English nation.
Page 94 - Strong and at labour suddenly he reels, Death came behind him and struck up his heels, Such sudden strokes, surviving mortals, bid ye Stand on your watch, and to be allso ready.
Page 64 - ... and only daughter into his own custody, giving her like education as his own ; and, when she was marriageble, gave her to William de Longville, a man of noble birth, who for his worthy deportment was in high favour with the king ; and with her the inheritance descended from her father, with large additions, but with this condition, for perpetuating the memory of so famous a man as St. Cleere, and his magnanimous resolution, he should bear both name and surname of her father, and be called Hubert...
Page 64 - Cleere, he having no other means present for his sovereign's safety, stept in before the king, and received the shot in his own body, and therewith his death ; an act worthy to be recorded in tables of gold with letters of diamond; in thankful commemoration of which meritorious service, the king not only gave him a noble interment, but took his young and only daughter into his own custody, giving her like education as his own ; and, when she was...
Page 63 - Springs are so warm as when all other adjoining are frozen, they are free from Ice in the coldest Weather that is, in which Seasons abundance of Fowl flock hither, to the no little pleasure and Profit of the Place.
Page 14 - ... under affections of the liver ; and during the autumn, winter, and spring seasons, for the consumptive invalid. Indeed, I am inclined to think, that during the spring months, it is the best place upon the coast for those liable to pulmonary complaints generally.
Page 23 - But in times past, it was a port of some account, now choked with chisel and sands by the vicissitudes of the tides.
Page 108 - From the observations made up to this time, no one has been able to give a satisfactory explanation as to the object in building these elaborate burrows and the seemingly carefully erected towers.
Page 51 - In the plantation on the summit of this point, there aie the remains of an old beacon. All that can now be seen is a circular stone 'wall, two feet thick, about five feet out of the ground, and the circle is twelve feet in diameter outside.
Page 42 - ... Near Cotleigh, about two miles from Honiton, on the Chard road, there is a large block of stone in a field, standing some five or six feet out of the ground, which goes at midnight down into the valley of Honiton to drink, when it hears the clock strike " that solemn hour. It stands on the hill, and is visible from the Honiton Road. " Grey Stone " and " Grey Stone Field " are the names by which they are known.