17 examples of edgar's in sentences

" "Oh, I have taken a peep into Jane's Baronetage, where find him set down as Sir Edgar's heir.

Colonel Egerton, who now appeared to be almost domesticated in the family, was again of the party at dinner, to the no small satisfaction of the dowager, who from proper inquiries in the course of the day had learned that Sir Edgar's heir was likely to have the necessary number of figures in the sum total of his rental.

Sir Edgar's heir prevailed, and the captain received permission to do what he had done several hours before.

His journey to that unfashionable watering-place, was owing to his passion; and however she might at times have doubted as to Sir Edgar's heir, Denbigh she thought a man of too little consequence in the world, to make it possible he would neglect to profit by his situation in the family of Sir Edward Moseley.

[C] Many of the English historians make Edgar's ships amount to an extravagant number, to three thousand, or three thousand six hundred: see Hoveden, p. 426.

The fleet of Ethelred, Edgar's son, must have been short of one thousand ships; yet the Saxon Chronicle, p. 137, says, it was the greatest navy that ever had been seen in England.

Six years had gone since they had parted; and, judging from Edgar's exterior, he had been pretty prosperous.

She looked round, and smoothing the lace of her peignoir with one hand: "You are Edgar's friend?"

She had even gone so far as to consult a fortune-teller shortly before Edgar's birth, and the cards had foretold a boy.

A bright idea of Edgar's was to ride in a row-boat pulled by eight kings under the old régime.

However, Edgar's reign was a brilliant one for an Anglo-Saxon, and his coon-skin cap is said to have cost over a pound sterling.

They knew, however, that Mr. Allan belonged to the best society; and it was chiefly Edgar's imperious manners that made some of them shun him.

Nearly a hundred years later, in Edgar's reign, the cathedral itself became a monastery, with Bishop Athelwold as first abbot.

When Catherine marries Edgar Linton, Heathcliff marries Isabella, Edgar's sister, in order that he may torture to perfection Catherine and Edgar and Isabella.

"What is consistent with God's will, and with mine oaths, that I hope to do," was Edgar's reply.

At that moment a Norman knight spurred up to Henry with some communication that made him look uneasy, and Christina, laying her hand on Edgar's arm, said: "Brother, we have vaults.

In 676 King Osric founded here a nunnery (eventually transformed into a monastery), and in 973 it was the scene of Edgar's coronation.

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