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  • How inexpressibly different in these domestic arrangements from such as she had read about—from abbeys and castles, in which, though certainly larger than Northanger, all the dirty work of the house was to be done by two pair of female hands at the utmost.†   (source)
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  • When Edward Abbey was writingThe Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith.†   (source)
  • Richard would ask at dinner, and I would dutifully recite, ticking off one building or park or statue after another: the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Kensington, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • The garden is outside the abbey walls.†   (source)
  • And inside the front cover there was a big map of London with places on it like Abbey Wood and Poplar and Acton and Stanmore.†   (source)
  • The Cat and card assassins jumped out of the abbey after them.†   (source)
  • The abbey smelled like incense and wood.†   (source)
  • He puts on his Abbey Road CD, skipping ahead to the songs that would have been on side 2 of the album, and tries to work on the drawing, making sure his measurements correspond to the principal designer's notes.†   (source)
  • I walk around the graveyard in the old abbey at Mungret where my mother's relations are buried and I go up the boreen to the Norman castle at Carrigogunnell where Dad brought me twice.†   (source)
  • In Westminster Abbey the vast sound of the organ was drowned by it.†   (source)
  • I remembered that day at Abbey Road Studios, when my envy led me to set rancor in the hearts of John and Paul and break up the Beatles.†   (source)
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  • Far below, on the ground, in the courtyard of the abbey, the cobblestones were shining.†   (source)
  • Lea Abbey.†   (source)
  • Three more letters arrived with the last rains in October, the first of them accompanied by a little box of violet pastilles from Flavigny Abbey.†   (source)
  • He died in 1882 and was buried with great pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey as one of England's distinguished sons.†   (source)
  • "Well, actually I'm trying to find the Abbey of Gethsemani."†   (source)
  • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey†   (source)
  • In addition to CDs, there were actual vinyl record albums—thousands of them, some of them most likely collector's items, including an unopened copy of Abbey Road and a slew of old 45s simply hanging on the wall with signatures of people like Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Ritchie Valens.†   (source)
  • Found the chandelier in a little abbey outside Paris.†   (source)
  • My mother and Lydia, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Westminster Abbey, the leaning Tower of Pisa.†   (source)
  • Even the location of the hospital was intimidating, close as it was to the great Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • A performance of Handel's 'Messiah at Westminster Abbey was "sublime beyond description," she wrote to Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Westminster Abbey had had one, she knew, as had the Sagrada Familia and Saint Basil the Blessed, but they had been sealed when Portals were invented.†   (source)
  • Okay, as a plan, it wasn't the blueprint of Westminster Abbey, but it was a start.†   (source)
  • Felicity's face falls as Pip spirits me away to the crumbling abbey, humming a merry tune.†   (source)
  • As was Ballintubber Abbey.†   (source)
  • Good-bye, Abbey Road.†   (source)
  • Several photos appeared on the screen, including one from London's Telegraph newspaper that showed a man running along a footpath outside Westminster Abbey, a gun in his hand.†   (source)
  • How long since I was standing beside Leopold in Westminster Abbey?†   (source)
  • Moreover, the abbey had a series of sprawling cloisters attached.†   (source)
  • A memorial will be held tomorrow at the Rosewood Abbey and will be open to the public.†   (source)
  • Lea Abbey, you have been matched with Joseph Peterson.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of Leigh Teabing and Westminster Abbey.†   (source)
  • Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.†   (source)
  • On sunny days, the abbey floor was a prismatic patchwork of light.†   (source)
  • The Teacher recalled a small announcement sign he had seen on his way into the abbey.†   (source)
  • Keeping architectural tradition, the abbey was laid out in the shape of a giant crucifix.†   (source)
  • He made the mistake of showing his ID when he entered the abbey.†   (source)
  • When I saw you enter the abbey, I understood.†   (source)
  • More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey.†   (source)
  • They both passed through without setting off the alarm and continued to the abbey entrance.†   (source)
  • Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, the seat of English Protestantism.†   (source)
  • At least long enough to get a booking at Ballintubber Abbey.†   (source)
  • I felt I'd been there before, like the abbey, but not …. bright, not happy like that.†   (source)
  • "Oh well, they've more than the abbey, and the graves and such.†   (source)
  • "But I know it's old, of course not as old as the abbey, but old for all that."†   (source)
  • But Cathal ordered another church built, and it came to be Ballintubber Abbey.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Langdon was back in Westminster Abbey, standing at Newton's pyramidical tomb, where he had experienced a similar epiphany.†   (source)
  • A lot of us are like that, I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long.†   (source)
  • Unlike the other rooms, which were at the mercy of noise and foul winds from the port, the library always enjoyed the tranquillity and fragrance of an abbey.†   (source)
  • On Monday morning, instead of sitting in first-period bio, Emily stood next to her parents in the high-ceilinged, marble-floored nave of Rosewood Abbey.†   (source)
  • He had memorized the route he'd taken from his exit portal to Westminster Abbey and was traveling it in reverse.†   (source)
  • The patio was like an abbey cloister, with a stone fountain murmuring in the center and pots of heliotrope that perfumed the house at dusk, but the space among the arcades was inadequate for so many grand family names.†   (source)
  • Dressed in her wedding gown, Alice stood before a full-length mirror in the vestry of Westminster Abbey.†   (source)
  • He found him in one of the oldest houses on the Park of the Evangels; it was half in ruins, and its interior patio, with weeds in the flowerpots and a stone fountain with no water, resembled an abbey cloister.†   (source)
  • With a last hug, Mrs. Liddell left to take her seat next to the rest of the family at the front of the abbey.†   (source)
  • A buffer of soldiers separated the queen from the rest of the guests, who completely filled the abbey.†   (source)
  • Alice would later swear that she had felt it coming beforehand, had felt something before the stained-glass windows on both sides of the abbey imploded as the strangest-looking creatures broke through them and landed amid the shards and crumbs of colored glass.†   (source)
  • She kissed her mother on the cheek and together they walked to the abbey's atrium, where bridesmaids and grooms-men waited to make their entrance, along with Dean Liddell, who would escort his daughter down the aisle.†   (source)
  • Without a word, Langdon led her another few steps to the center of the abbey and pointed to the right.†   (source)
  • Sophie drew a startled breath as she looked down the length of the abbey's nave, the full magnitude of the building now visible.†   (source)
  • As expected, the abbey's metal detectors had blared as the Teacher passed through with the concealed gun.†   (source)
  • The cloisters looked deserted now, admittedly the abbey's least enticing section in the wind and rain.†   (source)
  • Boasting the oldest living fruit trees in Great Britain, College Garden was a popular spot for tourists to visit without having to enter the abbey.†   (source)
  • His gaze dropped from the gilded altar down to the bright crimson robe of an abbey docent who was being waved over by two very familiar individuals.†   (source)
  • Stepping across the threshold into Westminster Abbey, Langdon felt the outside world evaporate with a sudden hush.†   (source)
  • Sophie moved directly to the sarcophagus, but Langdon hung back a few feet, keeping an eye on the abbey around them.†   (source)
  • Even so, Robert Langdon currently felt no interest in any of the abbey's ancient history, save one event—the funeral of the British knight Sir Isaac Newton.†   (source)
  • Langdon had once visited the abbey's famous College Garden—a small fruit orchard and herb garden—left over from the days when monks grew natural pharmacological remedies here.†   (source)
  • Designed in the style of the great cathedrals of Amiens, Chartres, and Canterbury, Westminster Abbey is considered neither cathedral nor parish church.†   (source)
  • Langdon's and Sophie's eyes, like those of almost every visitor, shifted immediately skyward, where the abbey's great abyss seemed to explode overhead.†   (source)
  • Westminster Abbey had been a short walk, and although Teabing's leg braces, crutches, and gun had set off the metal detector, the rent-a-cops never knew what to do.†   (source)
  • He had been anticipating a certain feeling of security in the popular tourist destination, but Langdon's recollections of bustling throngs in a well-lit abbey had been formed during the peak summer tourist season.†   (source)
  • Hurrying through the grand portico on the north transept, Langdon and Sophie were met by guards who politely ushered them through the abbey's newest addition—a large walk-through metal detector—now present in most historic buildings in London.†   (source)
  • He slipped the cryptex back in his pocket and watched warily as the visitors went to a nearby table, left a donation in the cup, and restocked on the complimentary grave-rubbing supplies set out by the abbey.†   (source)
  • … honorable knight, Sir Isaac Newton… … in London in 1727 and… … his tomb in Westminster Abbey… … Alexander Pope, friend and colleague… "I guess 'modern' is a relative term," Sophie called to Gettum.†   (source)
  • Armed with fresh charcoal pencils and large sheets of heavy paper, they headed off toward the front of the abbey, probably to the popular Poets' Corner to pay their respects to Chaucer, Tennyson, and Dickens by rubbing furiously on their graves.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly the Abbey of Gethsemani stood revealed, magnificent and stark and simple against the rolling green landscape.†   (source)
  • When not receiving visitors, she and Nabby went sightseeing (to Westminster Abbey, the British Museum) or shopping for new clothes, but astounded by the prices, they bought little.†   (source)
  • The great William Pitt, then Britain's Secretary of State, had called him "a complete model of military virtue," and the Massachusetts Assembly had provided funds for a marble memorial in Westminster Abbey, an honor that Admiral Lord Howe said he esteemed "above all."†   (source)
  • Of a wedding at Ballintubber Abbey.†   (source)
  • There you have the ruins of Cong Abbey.†   (source)
  • The pretty shops and pubs and restaurants, the little hotel, the flowers in pots and window boxes tipped down the road in the shadow of the ruined abbey.†   (source)
  • "Well there's the Ross Abbey.†   (source)
  • From the facade of the new Abbey the giant letters invitingly glared.†   (source)
  • Sir Lancelot was wanted, he said, to knight a young man at an abbey.†   (source)
  • I mean all that about advising me to visit Westminster Abbey.†   (source)
  • At twenty past nine they walked across the street to the newly opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret.†   (source)
  • At the abbey of white friars the fair damsel was waiting in a state of excitement.†   (source)
  • A red and dark building; an abbey, a mill by the Fall River or the Susquehanna, a country jail--it resembled each somewhat.†   (source)
  • All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.†   (source)
  • And the white man in his turn spoke about his own country, about the hedges and the fields, and Westminster Abbey, and the great cathedrals up and down the land.†   (source)
  • Five-stepping with the other four hundred round and round Westminster Abbey, Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world–the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday.†   (source)
  • I revived at the abbey where he had left me to be buried, and, when I was weil enough, I rode to seek him out.†   (source)
  • At this abbey they were to wait until King Bagdemagus could be brought over, and then the arrangements for the tournament were to be made.†   (source)
  • Bors had managed to find him at an abbey, during his two days' absence, and now he came back in the nick of time to fight Sir Mador for the Queen.†   (source)
  • This was the problem, an emotional rather than a moral one, which had taken him into retreat at his abbey, where he had hoped to feel things out.†   (source)
  • I ought to have mentioned that the two knights left me for dead, and Bors found me apparently dead, and he had taken my body to an abbey for burial.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the Castle Chariot was in the Forest Sauvage, and Lancelot now lost his way to the abbey.†   (source)
  • I was wondering why my life was spared so easily," So they insisted that Lancelot should stay the night, and in the morning they put him on the correct road for the abbey of white friars.†   (source)
  • He rode on to Carbonek, where he heard the abbey clock smite as he was pricking through the forest—and it was there that he came across King Eve-lake, who was about four hundred years old.†   (source)
  • A soft light flooded the land below them, and the slow river wound between venerable abbey and stately castle, while the flaming water of sunset reflected spires and turrets and pennoncells hanging motionless in the calm air.†   (source)
  • Lancelot was to ride to an abbey of white friars which was situated near by, and there he was to meet the damsel—who would, of course, be forced to flee from Queen Morgan because of her treachery in letting him escape.†   (source)
  • I think they must originally have had something to do with the abbey.†   (source)
  • Let him pick out the most historic house, castle or abbey that England contains.†   (source)
  • It contained an account of the failure of the Abbey Bank.†   (source)
  • I congratulate Mr Tanner; and I hope to meet you and him as frequent guests at the Abbey.†   (source)
  • Speaking of Rachel reminds me—did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank lately, Anne?†   (source)
  • To my left the view is cut off by a black line of roof of the old house next to the abbey.†   (source)
  • Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey Where the abbots buried him.†   (source)
  • [grinning] D'y' think they'll be able to get that done before I buy the house—or rather the abbey?†   (source)
  • 'He is,' said Mr Snevellicci, 'but he isn't in Westminster Abbey, more's the shame.†   (source)
  • "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"[36] replied Gavroche.†   (source)
  • "For the Abbey of Saint-Antoine des Champs," answered Fleur-de-Lys, without raising her eyes.†   (source)
  • "What a capital thing it is that they saved this piece of the old abbey!" said Arthur.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Dick, "Westminster Abbey—what there is left of it."†   (source)
  • And so they came to an abbey of monks, and there were well lodged.†   (source)
  • He came to the Abbey two evenings ago, on purpose to consult me about it.†   (source)
  • In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey of Fontevrault.†   (source)
  • Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods.†   (source)
  • You are a great deal too necessary at Hartfield to be spared to Abbey-Mill.†   (source)
  • "I shall never be invited to Abbey-Mill again," was said in rather a sorrowful tone.†   (source)
  • Her visit to Abbey-Mill, this summer, seems to have done his business.†   (source)
  • He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey.†   (source)
  • I could not have visited Mrs. Robert Martin, of Abbey-Mill Farm.†   (source)
  • Leicester Abbey lit up.†   (source)
  • Here there were rumours of Martians at Epping, and news of the destruction of Waltham Abbey Powder Mills in a vain attempt to blow up one of the invaders.†   (source)
  • New worshippers came in from the street to replace the strollers, and still, as people gazed round and shuffled past the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, still she barred her eyes with her fingers and tried in this double darkness, for the light in the Abbey was bodiless, to aspire above the vanities, the desires, the commodities, to rid herself both of hatred and of love.†   (source)
  • A deep hush pervaded the Abbey.†   (source)
  • He went up to London towards mid-day and ate a slice of turkey and some Christmas pudding by himself at Gatti's, and since he had nothing to do afterwards went to Westminster Abbey for the afternoon service.†   (source)
  • We are usually in London, and play the game with vigour—carols at the Abbey, clumsy midday meal, clumsy dinner for the maids, followed by Christmas-tree and dancing of poor children, with songs from Helen.†   (source)
  • The mill still worked on, food being a perennial necessity; the abbey had perished, creeds being transient.†   (source)
  • With the destruction of the enormous abbey the whole place collapsed in a general ruin: the Martyr's bones met with the fate of the sacred pile that held them, and not a stone is now left to tell where they lie.†   (source)
  • The Sixth Form room was in a part of the old abbey which had been restored, and it had a gothic window: Philip tried to cheat his boredom by drawing this over and over again; and sometimes out of his head he drew the great tower of the Cathedral or the gateway that led into the precincts.†   (source)
  • Within the mullioned and transomed windows he could see the black, brown, and flaxen crowns of the scholars over the sills, and to pass the time away he walked down to the level terrace where the abbey gardens once had spread, his heart throbbing in spite of him.†   (source)
  • Let us go backward a few hours, and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey, at four o'clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day.†   (source)
  • Doggedly she set off with her parcel to that other sanctuary, the Abbey, where, raising her hands in a tent before her face, she sat beside those driven into shelter too; the variously assorted worshippers, now divested of social rank, almost of sex, as they raised their hands before their faces; but once they removed them, instantly reverent, middle class, English men and women, some of them desirous of seeing the wax works.†   (source)
  • They had rambled round by a road which led to the well-known ruins of the Cistercian abbey behind the mill, the latter having, in centuries past, been attached to the monastic establishment.†   (source)
  • Not only along the road through Barnet, but also through Edgware and Waltham Abbey, and along the roads eastward to Southend and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout.†   (source)
  • The time and distance seemed endless, and my knees trembled and my breath came laboured as I toiled up the endless steps to the abbey.†   (source)
  • He followed the pageant through all its devious windings about London, and all the way to Westminster and the Abbey.†   (source)
  • I wanted Matthew to put it in the Savings Bank in the first place, but old Mr. Abbey was a great friend of father's and he'd always banked with him.†   (source)
  • It traced its origin to an abbey school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were taught by Augustine monks; and, like many another establishment of this sort, on the destruction of the monasteries it had been reorganised by the officers of King Henry VIII and thus acquired its name.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Leicester Abbey was like that.†   (source)
  • But, as he stood gazing about him, at the white marbles, grey window panes, and accumulated treasures (for he was extremely proud of the Abbey), her largeness, robustness, and power as she sat there shifting her knees from time to time (it was so rough the approach to her God—so tough her desires) impressed him, as they had impressed Mrs. Dalloway (she could not get the thought of her out of her mind that afternoon), the Rev. Edward Whittaker, and Elizabeth too.†   (source)
  • Here they were within a plantation which formed the Abbey grounds, and taking a new hold of her he went onward a few steps till they reached the ruined choir of the Abbey-church.†   (source)
  • The hour was too early; the pupils were still in school, humming small, like a swarm of gnats; and he withdrew a few steps along Abbey Walk, whence he regarded the spot which fate had made the home of all he loved best in the world.†   (source)
  • In the small hours she whispered to him the whole story of how he had walked in his sleep with her in his arms across the Froom stream, at the imminent risk of both their lives, and laid her down in the stone coffin at the ruined abbey.†   (source)
  • Then a noble anthem swept the Abbey with its rich waves of sound; and thus heralded and welcomed, Tom Canty was conducted to the throne.†   (source)
  • Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose, frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour towards the abbey.†   (source)
  • Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of South Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.†   (source)
  • As long as the King lived he was fond of telling the story of his adventures, all through, from the hour that the sentinel cuffed him away from the palace gate till the final midnight when he deftly mixed himself into a gang of hurrying workmen and so slipped into the Abbey and climbed up and hid himself in the Confessor's tomb, and then slept so long, next day, that he came within one of missing the Coronation altogether.†   (source)
  • The red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of a large old water-mill at Wellbridge—once the mill of an Abbey—had offered him the inspection of his time-honoured mode of procedure, and a hand in the operations for a few days, whenever he should choose to come.†   (source)
  • Don't you really know, Durbeyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d'Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d'Urberville, that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?"†   (source)
  • Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion," where the girl was built up in the wall.†   (source)
  • At that same hour, Edward, the true king, hungry and thirsty, soiled and draggled, worn with travel, and clothed in rags and shreds—his share of the results of the riot—was wedged in among a crowd of people who were watching with deep interest certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster Abbey, busy as ants: they were making the last preparation for the royal coronation.†   (source)
  • But there was another hour's work before the layer of live rats at the base of the stack would be reached; and as the evening light in the direction of the Giant's Hill by Abbot's-Cernel dissolved away, the white-faced moon of the season arose from the horizon that lay towards Middleton Abbey and Shottsford on the other side.†   (source)
  • He is, I am afraid, a very sceptical person, for when I asked him about the bells at sea and the White Lady at the abbey he said very brusquely, "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss.†   (source)
  • The meal was passed in commonplace talk of what he had been doing during the morning at the Abbey Mill, of the methods of bolting and the old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern improved methods, some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the monks in the adjoining conventual buildings—now a heap of ruins.†   (source)
  • Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view, and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible.†   (source)
  • Already it is arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey steps, for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan, you are a great man; and when you occupy Monsieur de Treville's place, I will come and ask your influence to secure me an abbey."†   (source)
  • …of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia's work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a…†   (source)
  • Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!†   (source)
  • The abbey was amply provisioned.†   (source)
  • [Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey".†   (source)
  • They would dine at a coffee-house and go afterwards to the play; they would frequent the Abbey and the British Museum and find out where Doctor Johnson had lived, and Goldsmith and Addison.†   (source)
  • The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.†   (source)
  • It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations—in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's Cathedral put together, on any Sunday in the year.†   (source)
  • Imperceptibly my candles became the only incongruous part of the morning, the dark places in my room all melted away, and the day shone bright upon a cheerful landscape, prominent in which the old Abbey Church, with its massive tower, threw a softer train of shadow on the view than seemed compatible with its rugged character.†   (source)
  • The room lay in a high turret of the castellated abbey, was pentagonal in shape, and of capacious size.†   (source)
  • Masses of ivy grew up, completely covering the walls, till the place looked like an abbey; and it was discovered that the view from the front, over the Casterbridge chimneys, was one of the most magnificent in the county.†   (source)
  • In the evening we went out for a walk in the streets, and went half-price to the Theatre; and next day we went to church at Westminster Abbey, and in the afternoon we walked in the Parks; and I wondered who shod all the horses there, and wished Joe did.†   (source)
  • In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don't expect me to describe it, that's impossible, so I'll only say it was sublime!†   (source)
  • Part II Chapter One Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not even the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after turning three water-mills near its mouth, where there are a few trout that the lads amuse themselves by fishing for on Sundays.†   (source)
  • "Nay," said the Priest, laughing, "it is only in our abbey that we confine ourselves to the 'lac dulce' or the 'lac acidum' either.†   (source)
  • We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets.†   (source)
  • It was necessary that some immediate exertion be made; yet turret was altogether apart from the portion of the abbey tenanted by the servants--there were none within call--I had no means of summoning them to my aid without leaving the room for many minutes--and this I could not venture to do.†   (source)
  • Thus, the Roman abbey, the philosophers' church, the Gothic art, Saxon art, the heavy, round pillar, which recalls Gregory VII.†   (source)
  • We went ashore at Bisham, where the remains of the old Abbey and the Elizabethan house that had been added to them yet remained, none the worse for many years of careful and appreciative habitation.†   (source)
  • A goodly train of knights and ladies lodged one night within the abbey walls, and next day rode away, with two of the fair sisters among them.†   (source)
  • The party went more than once to the British Museum and to that brighter palace of art which reclaims for antique variety so large an area of a monotonous suburb; they spent a morning in the Abbey and went on a penny-steamer to the Tower; they looked at pictures both in public and private collections and sat on various occasions beneath the great trees in Kensington Gardens.†   (source)
  • So on the morn they heard their masses in the abbey, and so they rode forth till they came to a great forest; then was Sir Gawaine ware in a valley by a turret, of twelve fair damsels, and two knights armed on great horses, and the damsels went to and fro by a tree.†   (source)
  • O, it is a rich abbey-stede, and they do live upon the fat, and drink the sweet wines upon the lees, these good fathers of Jorvaulx.†   (source)
  • On the first occasion I started up in alarm, to learn that she inferred from a particular light in the sky, that Westminster Abbey was on fire; and to be consulted in reference to the probability of its igniting Buckingham Street, in case the wind changed.†   (source)
  • In truth, my dear Captain, I have a great mind to take away your commission and give it to Mademoiselle de Chemerault, to whom I promised an abbey.†   (source)
  • The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine—the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.†   (source)
  • The buildings of the Chase Farm lay at one extremity of the Chase, at about ten minutes' walking distance from the Abbey.†   (source)
  • There is the Abbey of Jumiéges, there is the Cathedral of Reims, there is the Sainte-Croix of Orleans.†   (source)
  • "I am bearer of a letter," stammered out the Jew, "so please your reverend valour, to that good knight, from Prior Aymer of the Abbey of Jorvaulx."†   (source)
  • "But," said he whom d'Artagnan thus provoked, "it appears to me that this place is badly chosen, and that we should be better behind the Abbey St. Germain or in the Pre-aux-Clercs."†   (source)
  • Yet although the external abbey, with its verdant decay hanging about it, suffered but little alteration, I gave way, with a child-like perversity, and perchance with a faint hope of alleviating my sorrows, to a display of more than regal magnificence within.†   (source)
  • She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,— that it was like a city, and that there were streets in the monastery.†   (source)
  • Mr. Irwine, after seating his sister Anne, had gone to the abbey gallery, as he had agreed with Arthur beforehand, to see how the merriment of the cottagers was prospering.†   (source)
  • The old abbey flourished then; and the five sisters, living on its fair domains, paid yearly dues to the black monks of St Benedict, to which fraternity it belonged.†   (source)
  • The Abbey of Saint-German-des-Pres was castellated like a baronial mansion, and more brass expended about it in bombards than in bells.†   (source)
  • —Here, Jew, step forth—Look at that holy Father Aymer, Prior of the rich Abbey of Jorvaulx, and tell us at what ransom we should hold him?†   (source)
  • After a few months, therefore, of weary and aimless wandering, I purchased, and put in some repair, an abbey, which I shall not name, in one of the wildest and least frequented portions of fair England.†   (source)
  • 'It was a bright and sunny morning in the pleasant time of summer, when one of those black monks emerged from the abbey portal, and bent his steps towards the house of the fair sisters.†   (source)
  • The house would have been nothing but a plain square mansion of Queen Anne's time, but for the remnant of an old abbey to which it was united at one end, in much the same way as one may sometimes see a new farmhouse rising high and prim at the end of older and lower farm-offices.†   (source)
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  • You can't deny he invited every heretic he could lay hands on to preach in the Abbey.   (source)
    abbey = reference to a church
  • Wants to throw them out, yet tries to make us sing the Doxology like we were all in Westminster Abbey, does he?   (source)
  • When Stanley was Dean of Westminster he dug up nearly everybody in the Abbey looking for James the First.   (source)
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