Rother Sentence Examples

It is pleasantly situated on slightly rising ground near the river Rother.

The Royal military canal which runs along the inland border of Romney Marsh, and connects the Rother with Hythe, was constructed in 1807 as part of a scheme of defence in connexion with the martello towers or small forts along the coast.

It lies at the junction of two streams, the Rother and Hipper, in a populous industrial district.

But the open space where is now a memorial fountain was the Rother market, and Rother Street preserves its name.

The word signifies horned cattle, and is found in Shakespeare's own writing, in the restored line "It is the pasture lards the rother's sides" (Timon of Athens), '' where "brother's" was originally the accredited reading.

The Rother rises about Baslow, and flows into Yorkshire, with a northerly course, joining the Don.

Rother, who appears under the name of Dietrich, sets out with an army, liberates the envoys and carries off the princess.

The character of Constantine in many respects resembles that of Alexius Comnenus; the slaying of a tame lion by one of the gigantic followers of Rother is founded on an incident which actually took place at the court of Alexius during the crusade of i ioi under duke Well of Bavaria, when King Rother was composed about 1160 by a Rhenish minstrel.

Rother may be the Lombard king Rothari (636-650), transferred to the period of the Crusades.

Within historic times much of this marsh was covered by the sea, and the valley of the river Rother, which forms part of the boundary of Kent with Sussex, entering the sea at Rye harbour, was represented by a tidal estuary for a considerable distance inland.

The inland shire-boundary has varied with the altered course of the Rother.

It lies in the valley of the Don, where that river is joined by the Rother, and has communication by water with the Humber.

It lies on the small river Drone, a tributary of the Rother, in a busy industrial district in which are numerous coal-mines, and there are iron foundries and manufactures of tools and other iron and steel goods.

It lies at a considerable height on a sharp slope above a stream tributary to the river Rother.

It lies on an elevation above the Newnill Channel, a tributary of the Rother, whose flat valley, called the Rother Levels, was an estuary within historic times; and even as late as the 18th century the sea was within 2 m.

It lies mainly on a ridge above the valley of the Kent Ditch, a tributary of the Rother.