swathling

Updated: May 13, 2025

'Do you bear the same in mind, I answered hotly; 'my temper is peaceful, but covert threats and veiled menace I shall not abide. 'Odd's mercy! he cried. 'I see that you will start carving me anon, and take me to Monmouth's camp in sections. Nay, nay, we shall have fighting enow without falling out among ourselves. What houses are those on the left? 'The village of Swathling, I replied.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph,: Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734

He had scarce dared to face the change which had come upon him, when a few sudden chance words showed it all up hard and clear, like a lightning flash in the darkness. He had ridden over to Poole, one November day, with his fellow-squire, Peter Terlake, in quest of certain yew-staves from Wat Swathling, the Dorsetshire armorer.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company