He did not like the world, and he has left it, as Alderman Curtis advised the Radicals, "if they don't like their country, damn 'em, let 'em leave it," they possessing no rood of ground in England, and he ten thousand acres.

Sith rent him on the rood with full red wounds: then.

Nor were these their only causes of excitement; for the great Bayfield elm, a rood below the gates and in full view of them, marked the westward boundary of the French prisoners on parole.

So much were they surprised at our undauntedness, that they retired about a hundred roods from us.

The clipped and much maltreated stone Rood at the west door is Saxon work and the most interesting item in the church.

For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the dore of the late rood lofte viijd.

Once she look'd back, and when she saw him ride More near by many a rood than yestermorn, It wellnigh made her cheerful; till Geraint Waving an angry hand as who should say "Ye watch me," sadden'd all her heart again.

The Rood in the rebuilt church was erected to her memory nearly twenty years ago.

I dare not publicly name the rare joys, the infinite delights, that intoxicate me on some sweet June morning, when the river and bay are smooth as a sheet of beryl-green silk, and I run along ripping it up with my knife-edged shell of a boat, the rent closing after me like those wounds of angels which Milton tells of, but the seam still shining for many a long rood behind me.