109 examples of waltham in sentences

"To Waltham, heartsick from his wanderings, the room in all its arrangements was thoroughly domestic.

But Harold's mother was urgent in her lamentations and her prayers; the Conqueror relented: like Achilles, he gave up the dead body of his fallen foe to a parent's supplications, and the remains of King Harold were deposited with regal honors in Waltham Abbey.

They refused compliance: the Earls of Chester and Albemarle, John Constable of Chester, John de Lacy, Brian de l'Isle, and William de Cantel, with some others, even formed a conspiracy to surprise London, and met in arms at Waltham with that intention: but finding the king prepared for defence, they desisted from their enterprise.

AN ARRANT HORSE-COURSER Hath the trick to blow up horse-flesh, as the butcher doth veal, which shall wash out again in twice riding betwixt Waltham and London.

Prince Henry, having sought an opportunity of hearing him preach, made Hall his chaplain, and the Earl of Norwich gave him the living of Waltham in Essex.

How Mr. Lovelace has found me out here I cannot tell: but such mean devices, such artful, such worse than Waltham disguises put on, to obtrude himself into my company;

The wet ground here is intolerable, the sky above clear and delusive, but under foot quagmires from night showers, and I am cold-footed and moisture-abhorring as a cat; nevertheless I yesterday tramped to Waltham Cross; perhaps the poor bit of exertion necessary to scribble this was owing to that unusual bracing.

We are plain people; and our talk is of corn, and cattle, and Waltham markets.

"The Calvin scholarship to Albert Park Digbee, Waltham, Massachusetts."

Harold's body was buried by the sea-shore, but many years afterwards disinterred, and, all signs of vitality having disappeared, he was buried again in the church he had founded at Waltham.

++ | | | WALTHAM WATCHES.

In this country the manufacture of this fine grade of | | Watches is not even attempted except at Waltham.

This comes down from historic Bishop's Waltham with its considerable remains of the "palace" of the earlier Bishop of Winchester.

Here was found the sacred Rood that was eventually taken in the days of Canute to distant Waltham in Essex, where afterwards there arose the great Abbey of the Holy Cross.

Here is a lively commentary upon the Inclosure Acts: "To a pamphlet which was published some years ago, against the propriety of enclosing Waltham Forest, the following quaint motto was prefixed: "The fault is great in man or woman, Who steals a goose from off a common, But who can plead that man's excuse, Who steals the common from the goose?" How to decide a Chancery Suit:

"Lord Lambourne, in a farewell address to his late constituents at Waltham Abbey, said the honour which had been conferred on him was not degraded by a farthing of his money.

Two Saxon monks from Waltham Abbey, which had been founded by Harold, came, by their abbot's order, and claimed for their church the remains of their benefactor; and William, indifferent as he had been to a mother's grief, would not displease an abbey.

She discovered amongst the corpses her lover's mutilated body; and the monks bore it away to the church at Waltham, where it was buried.

Rich embroideries from India, rugs of downy softness from Turkey, the muslin of Decca, anciently known as "The Woven Wind," the pottery and majolica ware of P. Pipsen's widow, the cartridges and envelopes of Uncle Sam, Waltham watches, whose finest mechanical work is done by women, and ten thousand other industries found no place in the pavilion.

For Freight 3.00 Waltham.

EPPING FOREST, as it now exists in the SE. of Essex, is a remnant5600 acresof the famous Epping or Waltham Forest, which once extended over all Essex, and which then served as a royal hunting-ground, is now a favourite pleasure-ground and valuable field for explorations of botanical and entomological collectors.

THE BATTLEFIELD OF HASTINGS (1855) Deeply the Abbot of Waltham sighed When he heard the news of woe: How King Harold had come to a pitiful end, And on Hastings field lay low.

"Thereafter to Waltham Abbey here

To Waltham Abbey it shall be borne.

To Waltham Abbey to his tomb

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