Albion Sentence Examples

The name Albion was taken by medieval writers from Pliny and Ptolemy.

The news of the strengthening of the British army and navy lately announced in the king's speech had perhaps annoyed him; but seeing that his outbursts of passion were nearly always the result of calculation - he once stated, pointing to his chin, that temper only mounted that high with him - his design, doubtless, was to set men everywhere talking about the perfidy of Albion.

He now threw all his energies into the task of marshalling the forces of France and his vassal states for the overthrow of "perfidious Albion."

Still greater was the influence of Geoffrey upon those writers who, like Warner in Albion's England (1586), and Drayton in Polyolbion (1613), deliberately made their accounts of English history as poetical as possible.

From 1872 to 1875 she studied at Albion College, Mich., and in 1878 graduated from the Theological School of Boston University.

Albion is served by the Michigan Central and the Jackson division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railways, and by an inter-urban electric line.

The college was incorporated in 1835 as Spring Arbor Seminary, and in 1839 by an amended charter was located at Albion, where it was first opened in 1843 under the name of the Wesleyan Seminary of Albion; in 1849 it became the Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, with power to grant degrees to women only; but in 1861 the present name was adopted and the college was permitted to grant degrees to men and women.

Albion was settled in 1831, was incorporated as a village in 1866 and was chartered as a city in 1885.

Cluny in the Grand Port (south-eastern) district has a mean annual rainfall of 145 in.; Albion on the west coast is the driest station, with a mean annual rainfall of 31 in.

The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.

The most successful of these were the Albion and Columbian presses, the former of English manufacture, and the latter invented (1816) by an American, George Clymer (1754-1834), of Philadelphia.

The chief characteristics of the Albion are its lightness of build and its ease in running; the pull is short, the power great, and the means whereby it is attained so simple that the press does not readily get out of order.

Although the Columbian is not so much in demand as the Albion, it is still employed for heavy hand-work because of its greater stability and power.

The great power of this press adapts it to the working of large and solid formes in printing, but it is somewhat slower in action than the Albion press, which is both lighter in construction and quicker in working.

The iron hand-press, such as the Albion or the Columbian, used for the pulling of proofs, or for the printing of limited editions de luxe.

There are two state normal schools, one at Lewiston and the other at Albion.

As early as 1634 a patent had been issued to Sir Edmund Plowden, appointing him governor over New Albion, a tract of land including the present states of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Failing in a suit in chancery to obtain redress, he returned to England, and nothing further was heard of the claimants to New Albion.

Flamborough Head, the South Foreland, Beachy Head and the Needles are examples of the fine scenery into which chalk weathers where it fronts the sea, and these white cliffs gave to the island its early name of Albion.

In 1579 the Englishman, Francis Drake, came to this region seeking a route home by way of the Northwest Passage, and in his futile quest he seems to have gone as far north as 43 0.1 He took possession of the country in the name of Queen Elizabeth and called it Albion.

This seaside village, with its "semicircular sweep of houses," grew into a considerable town owing to the influx of summer visitors, for whose entertainment there are, besides the "Albion" mentioned by Dickens, numerous hotels and boarding-houses, libraries, a bathing establishment and a fine promenade.

An opening on the northern side of the reef permits the entrance of vessels into the northern part of the lagoon, which forms a good harbour known as Port Refuge or Port Albion.

He had aboard his two ships, the " Lady Nelson " of 60 tons and the whaler " Albion " of 3 06 tons, three officials, a lance-corporal and seven privates of the New South Wales Corps, six free men and twenty-five convicts, together with an adequate supply of live stock, and landed at Risdon, near Hobart, where he was joined shortly afterwards by fifteen soldiers and forty-two convicts.

It is a 1906 Albion A3 12 seater charabanc, probably taken when new or almost new.

Stirling Albion manager Allan Moore has warned the fans not to expect an influx of new faces come the summer.

At Albion Park, Pudsey Electrical has taken 1,272 sq ft on a new five-year lease.

The chances were mainly long-range efforts, with Albion's Alexandre Frutos and Colin Kazim-Richards both firing over from distance.

Crewe's left-sided midfielder David Vaughan looks set to miss the vital six-pointer against Brighton & Hove Albion this coming Saturday.

Albion usually play their home midweek games on Tuesday, but Gillingham entertained Southend United yesterday at the Priestfield Stadium.

Albion made a switch eleven minutes in when McQuilken replaced McMenamin.

Soon nothing, not even mighty Albion, will be safe from the deadly peril.

Local pub the Three Jolly Butchers emerged triumphant with their blazing yellow Albion kit, very kindly donated by the Brighton football club.

In 1860 William Brighton, who built the famous wherry Albion, worked in the Bungay Staithe area.

A crude challenge from Richard Langley sent Albion midfielder Jason Koumas crashing to the ground 20 yards from goal on the stroke of half-time.

The sixth Albion is a 14-gun twin-screw battleship, built at Blackwall in 1898.

On the whole it reads more like an application for a verger 's position and St. Albion than an overview of his political beliefs.

Taking place in a fantasy world, Fable III lets players continue the role of the child from Fable II, except now he can rise to become the ruler of Albion.

The adventure in Fable involves you doing various quest around the land of Albion.

Working with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote Ghosts of Albion, an animated supernatural drama for BBC online which then became a book series from Del Rey.

In Albion are the Western House of Refuge for Women (a state institution established in 1890), a public park, the Swan Library, and the county buildings, including the court house, the jail and the surrogate's office; and about 2 m.

Albion is the centre of the Medina sandstone industry, and lies in the midst of a good farming region, of which it is the principal shipping point, especially for apples, cabbages and beans.

Albion was settled in 1812, was incorporated in 1823 and became the county-seat in 1825.

The land pebble is worked in central South Florida; the hard rock chiefly between Albion and Bay City.

In 1836 the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy(1802-1837), a native of Albion, Maine, removed the Observer, a religious (Presbyterian) periodical of which he was the editor, from St Louis to Alton.