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The "Rising Sun" in Holywell Street is a curious example, there being many false doors and traps in various parts of the house; also in the before-mentioned Newton Street a panel could be raised by a pulley, through which a fugitive or outlaw could effect his escape on to the roof, and thence into the adjoining house.
It would have simplified matters from my point of view if you had. I should not have been compelled to waste my money upon those two roughs, nor would you have spent an exceedingly uncomfortable quarter of an hour in that doorway in Holywell street." This was news indeed. So he had been aware of my presence there? I put the question to him. "Oh! Yes! I knew you were there," he said with a laugh.
The church, called by ribalds "the boiled rabbit," from its peculiar shape, lies on the right; there is a gate in the city wall, on the place where the road now turns to Holywell. At this time the walls still existed, and ran from Magdalen past "St. Mary's College, called Newe," through Exeter, through the site of Mr. Parker's shop, and all along the south side of Broad Street to St.
He swung to and fro with his right hand a Malacca joint with a chiselled gold head. He bowed politely to Ralph, remarking: "So you, too, are waiting for a plunge into the waters of the Holywell?" "You are right, sir; I guess that we shall find the Roman bath cold this morning." "You are an American, are you not?"
There was a great deal of luggage, and Annette, who wore a rather cross, flushed air, turned round every now and then to look frowningly at the old gabled house into which it was being carried, as though she were more than doubtful whether the building would hold the boxes. Yet as houses went, in the older parts of Oxford, Medburn House, Holywell, was roomy.
'Sieyes an abbe, now a ferocious lifeguardsman, stretches the face of the rollicking Irish novelist without disfeaturing him; and the mysterious visitor to the palatial mansion in Holywell Street indicates possibilities in the Oriental imagination of the eminent statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction.
Codlingsby was about laughingly to answer for indeed he was amazed to find all the affairs of the world represented here, and Holywell Street the centre of Europe when three knocks of a peculiar nature were heard, and Mendoza starting up, said, "Ha! there are only four men in the world who know that signal."
Talk with Mistress about flattery . Holywell is a market town, neither very small nor mean. The spring called Winifred's Well is very clear, and so copious, that it yields one hundred tuns of water in a minute. It is all at once a very great stream, which, within perhaps thirty yards of its eruption, turns a mill, and in a course of two miles, eighteen mills more. In descent, it is very quick.
'Well, it's your own affair, of course; only I just think I should do it if I were you. Good-night. 'Wait a minute, said Hyacinth. 'I want to know what you mean. Mr. Holywell sat down again heavily. 'Been round your customers here lately? 'No. I only arrived this evening, and have done nothing yet. I mean to go round them to-morrow.
At the well-known livery-stables in Holywell, he found a certain animation. Horses were in demand, as there were manoeuvres going on in Blenheim Park, and the minds of both dons and undergraduates were drawn thither. But Falloden succeeded in getting hold of the manager and absorbing his services at once. "Show you something really good, fit for a lady?"
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