151 examples of kentish in sentences

It is so that the Kentish men be up in the Weald and say that they will come and rob the city, which I shall let [i. e., prevent] if I may.

In his lifetime it occupied the gallery at Ivy Lodge, Highgate (or more properly Kentish Town).

Well, Murat, I suppose we shall see you riding across the Kentish hop-fields before long.'

That long and all-powerful arm had plucked her out from the Kentish town, and had brought her across the Channel, in order to make sure of my allegiance, and to strengthen the Court by the presence of a de Choiseul.

A kentish Lord, sir; his ancestors came forth off Canterbury.

Then home early by Kentish-town.

I had several Projects in my Head to put a Stop to this growing Mischief; but as I have long lived in Kent, and there often heard how the Kentish Men evaded the Conqueror, by carrying green Boughs over their Heads, it put me in mind of practising this Device against Mrs. Simper.

Here are two fellows who are Lancashire men, if the truth were known, that pretend to be Norwegians, or Fins, or to come from some other outlandish country or other, and I wish to place them under His Majesty's pennant, where they properly belong; as they are so reluctant to receive this honour, I will consent to take that fine-looking Kentish man, who is worth them both put together.

I showed him a corn that I had cut off, with my own hand, from a maid of honor's toe; it was the bigness of a Kentish pippin, and grown so hard that, when I returned to England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.

'Marry,' quoth he, 'because your Dog runs not at me with his tail.' (Extract from The Kentish Miracle, or, A Seasonable Warning to all Sinners.)

Kentish lawn in the spring, birds singing in the lilacs, and some one in a muslin frock waiting patiently beneath a certain cedarnot the one in the picture, I know, but" "I was not waiting," she said indignantly, "I was picking fir-cones for the schoolroom fire" "Fir-cones, my dear, do not grow on cedars, and schoolroom fires were not made in June in my young days.

Kentish Town, part of Highgate, Camden Town, and Somer's Town, are comprised within this parish as hamlets.

Mr. Lysons supposes it to have included the prebendal manor of Kentish Town, or Cantelows, which now constitutes a stall in St. Paul's Cathedral.

About a mile from the church, in a field in Kentish Town, is the Gospel Oak, under which, tradition says, that Saint Austin, or one of his monks, preached.

Before he lived in Ealing he had a little cottage at Ramstairs, on the Kentish coast.

In a burst of enthusiasm he joined the Special Constables; in an explosion of wrath, following the bombardment of Scarborough, he enlisted in the Kentish Fencibles, and in a wave of self-sacrifice he enrolled himself in the Old Veterans' Fire Brigade.

In due course a notification of it was conveyed to Ramstairs, and instantaneously the members of the Special Constabulary, the Kentish Fencibles and the Veterans' Fire Brigade were summoned from their beds.

He was dismissed with ignominy from the Special Constables and was condemned to death, with a recommendation to mercy, by a court-martial of the Kentish Fencibles.

Lombard, the great Kentish antiquary, said that he never knew Kent properly, till he read of it in the Britannia.

Bigarreau, Waterloo, Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, May Duke, White Heart, and Kentish are all good sorts.

If it were Kent v. Middlesex at Lord's, for example, there would be loads of Kentish men on the ground.

Nor could I see much of him now, though I observed that he seemed to be taking some kind of refreshment; but the voice was not a Kentish voice, nor even an English one; it seemed to engraft an unfamiliar, guttural accent on the dialect of East London.

The Prize, which is proposed to be Grinn'd for, has raised such an Ambition among the Common People of Out-grinning one another, that many very discerning Persons are afraid it should spoil most of the Faces in the Country; and that a Warwickshire Man will be known by his Grinn, as Roman-Catholicks imagine a Kentish Man is by his Tail.

Lord Camden has just let ground at Kentish Town for building fourteen hundred housesnor do I wonder; London is, I am certain, much fuller than ever I saw it.

And whether living happily in their beautiful Genoese home, or farther north among the picturesque Italian lakes, or in Switzerland, or among the Kentish hop-gardens and the parks of Surrey, Elizabeth's one central occupation of drawing was never abandoned,literally not for a day.

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