Briton Sentence Examples

Rachael finished behind Germany's Susanne Hirt with fellow Briton Heather Corrie placed eleventh.

Put me Back on My Bike - Book - Tom Simpson was the first Briton to wear the yellow jersey.

No Briton, including the prime minister and all members of the police and armed forces, is above the law.

The Greatest Britons of all Time In November 2002, the British public voted to find the Greatest Briton of all time.

The Neath Canal, from the upper part of the Vale of Neath to Briton Ferry (13 m.) passes through the town, which is also connected with Swansea by another canal.

At length, unable to contend any longer against the general and inveterate animosity displayed against him, fearing for the consequences to the monarchy, alarmed at the virulent attacks of the North Briton, and suffering from ill-health, Bute resigned office on the 8th of April.

The Briton has an inveterate dislike of third-class travel by sea, even on short trips.

In 1844 the troop-ships "Briton" and "Runnymede" were driven ashore here, almost close together.

This is merely a recension of a work which was composed about 679 by a Briton of Strathclyde.

Presumably this originated simply in the liberty-loving Briton's respect for proper legal procedure; instead of the brute exercise of tyrannous force he demanded "law," or a fair opportunity and trial.

He continued to hold this office when George Grenville became prime minister (April 1763), and advised the government on the question raised by Wilkes's North Briton.

It appears in several variant forms (brytenwalda, bretenanwealda, &c.), and means most probably "lord of the Britons" or "lord of Britain"; for although the derivation of the word is uncertain, its earlier syllable seems to be cognate with the words Briton and Britannia.

Practically every Briton of military age in the country was enrolled in the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve.

Cowbridge (Pontyfon) and Ludchurch (Eglwys Llwyd), others are of direct external origin, as Bishopstone, Flemingstone, Butter Hill, Briton Ferry, Manselfield, &c. Names derived straight from an Anglo-Norman source are rare; Beaupre, Beaumaris, Beaufort, Fleur-de-Lis, Roche, may be cited as examples of such.

The harbour docks and adjacent railways (which exceed 20 m.) are owned and administered by a harbour trust of 26 members, of whom one is the owner of the Briton Ferry estate (Earl Jersey), 4 represent the lord of the seigniory of Gower (the duke of Beaufort), 12 are proprietary members and 9 are elected annually by the corporation of Swansea.

Its status was only that of a "creek" in the port of Cardiff till 1685, when it was made an independent port with jurisdiction over Newton (now Porthcawl), Neath or Briton Ferry and South Burry, its limits being defined in 1847 as extending from Nash Point on the east to Whitford Point on the west, but in 1904 Port Talbot, which was included in this area, was made into a separate port.

But they were essentially antipathetic persons; and it is clear that the great minister and complete Briton took no pains to understand the dazzling young Jew of whom Lyndhurst thought so much, and wished to have little to do with him.

Briton is an old country with laws in its statute books going back many centuries.

The Briton finished second to the reigning champ Mat Mladin in the first race in the American series at Daytona.

Back in 2002, you may recall, the BBC commissioned a telephone poll of viewers to find the greatest Briton of all time.