malmsbury

Updated: June 25, 2025

I rolled you over on to my improvised stretcher and trailed you here, Indian fashion. It was easy as easy. Mrs. Malmsbury was abed and I did not wish to disturb her just then. Later, when I got you here, she helped me to put you to bed. "Oh! I am so glad that man did not murder you." "But it would not have been murder, Mary," I put in. "It was a fair fight."

Robert Watson - My Brave and Gallant Gentleman: A Romance of British Columbia

A diadem is described by William of Malmsbury, "so precious with jewels, that the splendour... threw sparks of light so strongly on the beholder, that the more steadfastly any person endeavoured to gaze, so much the more he was dazzled, and compelled to avert the eyes!"

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

Amongst these, St. Wulstan eminently distinguished himself. "He rebuked," says William of Malmsbury, "the wicked of all ranks with great boldness, but was peculiarly severe upon those who were proud of their long hair.

Anonymous - Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World

The Stuart kings all wore this ring and until it came to George IV., with other Stuart bequests, it never left the royal Stuart line. Edward I. owned a sapphire ring made by St. Dunstan. Dunstan was an industrious art spirit, being reported by William of Malmsbury as "taking great delight in music, painting, and engraving."

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

Of this voyage, William of Malmsbury makes twice mention; once in the fourth chapter of his second book, De Gestis Regum Anglorum; and secondly, in the second book of his work; entitled, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum; and in the chapter devoted to the Bishops of Shireburn, Salisbury, and Winchester, both of which are here added, although the only authority for the story is contained in what has been already given from the Saxon Chronicle .

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Now when I heard that I wondered, and asked the Sheriff, at whose house I was made most welcome, how this was. Eadmund had been with his father, and had gone to Malmsbury, and there had seen the Lady Algitha, the widow of Earl Sigeferth whom Edric Streone slew, and had married her, and now had gone to take over the Five Boroughs for himself.

Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler - King Olaf's Kinsman : A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut