Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
For him, who had lost his first mother to breast cancer, he would only have that memory that her arms came down on him and then raised up like that bar at a tollbooth. And if she were to continue in this quest to remove herself from this ownership mania of this self-proclaimed American brand of the common herd, she would continue to do so with the same dry, permanent logic.
Turner's lodgings, seized him in his bed, carried him without clothes to the marketplace, threatened to cut him to pieces, and seized and put into the Tollbooth all the foot soldiers that were with him; they also secured the minister of Dumfries.
Inscription on Edinburgh Tollbooth. Early on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood House, was, with his two silent and surly attendants, appointed to convey him to his place of confinement at Portanferry.
Turner's lodgings, seized him in his bed, carried him without clothes to the marketplace, threatened to cut him to pieces, and seized and put into the Tollbooth all the foot soldiers that were with him; they also secured the minister of Dumfries.
Opposite the chapel were the court-house, called the Tollbooth, the Debtors' Prison, and a Maison Dieu, that is, a kind of almshouse. Dwelling-houses ranged from big town residences of noble or distinguished families, by way of the beautifully decorated, costly houses of the rich middle-class merchants, to the humble dwellings of the poorest inhabitants.
Compare the Tollbooth, Edinburgh, and the Tolhouse, Yarmouth. Cf. French manger. Wall-paper, which still bears the influence of the hangings that it replaced, came into general use early in the nineteenth century. The view to-day from Petergate towards Bootham Bar gives a good impression of a narrow main street, with gabled houses, leading to the single fortified opening provided by the Bar.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking