Combe Sentence Examples
She was entrusted to the care of the earl of Linlithgow, and after the departure of the royal family to England, to the countess of Kildare, subsequently residing with Lord and Lady Harington at Combe Abbey in Warwickshire.
In Dean cemetery, partly laid out on the banks of the Water of Leith, and considered the most beautiful in the city (opened 1845), were interred Lords Cockburn, Jeffrey and Rutherford; " Christopher North," Professor Aytoun, Edward Forbes the naturalist, John Goodsir the anatomist; Sir William Allan, L Sam Bough, George Paul Chalmers, the painters; George Combe, the phrenologist; Playfair, the architect; Alexander Russel, editor of the Scotsman; Sir Archibald Alison, the historian; Captain John Grant, the last survivor of the old Peninsular Gordon Highlanders; Captain Charles Gray, of the Royal Marines, writer of Scottish songs; Lieutenant John Irving, of the Franklin expedition, whose remains were sent home many years after his death by Lieut.
Drws (the door of) Ardudwy, Rhinog fawr and Rhinog fach (cliffs); an exception is the verdant Cwm bychan (little combe or hollow).
Here also Owen Glendower unfurled the banner of Welsh independence; from here, in 1401, he harassed the country, sacking Montgomery, burningWelshpool, and destroying Cwm Hir (long "combe," or valley) abbey, of which some columns are said to be now in Llanidloes old church..
Combe is renowned for its challenging corners and tight bends.
The delightful bedrooms are all individually styled, commanding views of the sea, the gardens or the wooded combe that flanks the hotel.
Beer, 1.5 miles west of Seaton, is a fishing village nestling in a small combe.
Their boss Nick Carpenter treated them to the new rally driving course which has just been launched at Castle Combe racing circuit.
Combe haven was a little better with a stonechat, snipe and several fieldfares present.
Combe Hay Fosse Way; Combe Hay Stay on the right side of the road; there is a narrow footway.
AdvertisementThe narrator of these poems is himself, according to Combe, " the target fop who sees " (60 ).
On tuesday I came accross a barnacle goose in Combe Haven valley.
A female marsh harrier was hunting over Combe Haven Valley.
Steve Burns expects Combe to remain a hotbed of FF1600 action under the CCRC regime.
The seemingly invincible Peter Dempsey was coming to Castle Combe.
AdvertisementCastle Combe is only licensed to run 4-stroke racing karts.
He will certainly be competing in the end-of-season knockouts at Combe, Brands Hatch and Silverstone.
Just be happy with that. ' " Blakeney arrived at Combe looking extremely purposeful.
Both drivers could be boosted by returning to Combe, where they will now expect spectacular outright results rather than class respectability.
We are in a rural setting, just over a mile outside of the village of Combe Martin in North Devon.
AdvertisementCombe St Nicholas Palmer records an oral tradition of a well here revealed in a dream during a drought at Chard.
He answered these attacks in kind, sometimes perhaps with unnecessary vehemence and rancour, but he never faltered in his work, and, an optimist by nature, a disciple of his friend George Combe, and a believer in the indefinite improvability of mankind, he was sustained throughout by his conviction that nothing could so much benefit the race, morally, intellectually and materially, as education.
Just be happy with that. ' Blakeney arrived at Combe looking extremely purposeful.
At Combe Warren a great rounded bush, 10 feet or more high and almost as much through, is each year shrouded with the delicate yellow flowers.
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AdvertisementIt is situated at the mouth of a narrow combe or valley opening upon a fine precipitous coast-line; there is a sandy shore affording excellent bathing, and the country inland is beautiful.
On the 31st of October he was made a canon of York, and on the 15th of December provost of the fourteen prebends of Combe in Wells cathedral, while at some date unknown he obtained also prebends in Bridgenorth collegiate church and St Patrick's, Dublin, and the rectory of Menheniot in Cornwall.