tanning-yard

Updated: July 10, 2025

I was playing about him as he worked in the tanning-yard one spring afternoon, when in through the open doorway strutted two stately gentlemen, with gold facings to their coats and smart cockades at the side of their three-cornered hats.

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

Had I said that he was fierce in ins religion and subject to strange fits of piety, the words might have made little impression upon you; but when I tell you of his attack upon the officers in the tanning-yard, and his summoning us down in the dead of the night to await the second coming, you can judge for yourselves the lengths to which his belief would carry him.

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