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...The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from their mercenary relative Ralph, on whose mercy they h...

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...with his work in international livestock research and development, as one of his great legacies. This biography traces Tribe’s family origins in Portsmouth through his formative years in Reading, Aberdeen, the Rowett Institute and Bristol, and describes how, after tasting Australia on a short- term Nuffield Scholarship, he came to spend his remaining 47 years living t...

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... Iowa. In May, 1882, Mr. Snyder lost a hand while working in a planning mill at Portsmouth, Ohio, and the amputated member was buried in his garden. ... ...p the clothes and his vexations ceased. So about the same time, a Quaker at Portsmouth, withheld from an old woman of his town, a lot of land wh...

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... Bailey (bejli) Henry omas, anglo, stenogra i sto. Nask. 23 marto l869 en Portsmouth. E-isto de1902. Faris paroladojn ĉe Stenogra a Asocio; artikolo... ...ero aperis informoj pri grupoj en Bournemouth, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Portsmouth kaj London. Rapide la movado disvastiĝis enĉiuj partoj de la lan... ...st Bertram, anglo, helpadministranto en kuirista fako de brita mararmeo en Portsmouth. Nask.14 okt. 1889 en P . E-istiĝis en 1909. Dum pluraj jaroj gv... ...illcock (ŭilkoks) Edmond William, anglo, apotekisto. Nask. 19 okt. 1880 en Portsmouth. Sekr. de Brita Sekcio de ISAE. Sekr. de Walhamstowa EG. William...

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...ross several old letters this morning. Raleigh’s is hard to decipher: Portsmouth March 9, 1608 Will Shakespear— We have taken an old carr... ...ck, the Madre de Dios, and spoils clutter her deck as we lie at anchor in Portsmouth Bay, spoils, things the Queen would grow sullen over, wanting t...

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...and the child be appointed to meet her there. They may easily get her from Portsmouth to town by the coach, under the care of any creditable person th... ...ew hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead;... ... right to be. I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to go over and pay your re... ... with Dr. Grant. “This is the assembly night,” said William. “If I were at Portsmouth I should be at it, perhaps.” “But you do not wish yourself at Po... ...to fix on the 22nd as the most eligible day. William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his vis... ...h would not have allowed him an hour’s rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of Mr. Crawford’s would rob her of ... ...ustom prohibited its appearance except on duty. So the uniform remained at Portsmouth, and Edmund conjectured that before Fanny had any chance of seei... ...other light. This scheme was that she should accompany her brother back to Portsmouth, and spend a little time with her own family. It had occurred to... ...t might have been hard to bear at Mansfield was to become a slight evil at Portsmouth. The only drawback was the doubt of her aunt Bertram’s being com...

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...me obscure way strategic, that he would leave Guildford not by the obvious Portsmouth road, but by the road running through Shalford. Along this pleas... ... mile or more, and dropped him as a terrier drops a walkingstick, upon the Portsmouth again, a couple of miles from Godalming. He entered Godalming on... ... precise, he did exactly the opposite thing. The road to the right was the Portsmouth road, and this he was on went to Haslemere and Midhurst. By that... ... and resumed the road southward. And when he learnt that he was not on the Portsmouth road, it was impossible to turn and go back, for that would be t... ...rown, pos- sessed him. He had conceived the brilliant idea of abandon- ing Portsmouth, or at least giving up the straight way to his fellow-wayfarers,... ...s of the goods under discussion, “I have not forgotten that morning on the Portsmouth road,” and lower, “I never shall forget.” At Northchapel Mr. Hoo... ...rd, the choice of southward roads is limited; you may go by Petersfield to Portsmouth, or by Midhurst to Chichester, in addition to which highways the... ...pe to the silent red-brick fort that crowned it. Thence they had a view of Portsmouth and its cluster of sister towns, the crowded narrows of the harb...

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...nch which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness her Grace of Portsmouth— employed. Indeed, spelling was not an article of general com- m... .... Before Mr. Esmond left England in the month of August, and being then at Portsmouth, where he had joined his regiment, and was busy at drill, learni... ...d an enemy, had he boarded the ship, would have had easy work of him. From Portsmouth we put into Plymouth, and took in fresh reinforcements. We were ... ...y Esmond said. “I thought you might come.” “We read of the fleet coming to Portsmouth. Why did you not come from Portsmouth?” Frank asked, or my Lord ...

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...f Clarence, with whom my mother had once danced at a ball on board ship at Portsmouth, and who had been rather fond of my uncle. Indeed, I believe my ... ...ain- ous plot. When the time came my father went down by the night mail to Portsmouth. He could scarcely bear to face the mat- ter; but, as he said, h... ...rlet, and he said low and hoarsely, ‘That’s Lester. He was in the Argus at Portsmouth two years ago;’—and then, as our little sister continued her ind... ...n it, but that was enough. ‘D. G.— I shall see you all again. We put in at Portsmouth.’ There was no staying at home after that. We three lost no time... ...ys had become available, and by the time we had driven from the station at Portsmouth the Douro had been signalled. Martyn took a boat and went on boa... ...ess had so felt it, for certainly no other 249 Yo n g e mode of return to Portsmouth, the very place of his degrada- tion, could so have soothed him ... ...! And wasted as was his face, the quiet rest and joy were ineffable. Still Portsmouth was not the best place for him, and we were glad that he was wel...

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...oreigner, sir,” said she, with an accent as pure as ever was heard between Portsmouth and Manches- ter; “my name is Lady Clarik, and this measure—” “T... ...inal—an inhabitant of La Roch- elle, we say, entered the city, coming from Portsmouth, and saying that he had seen a magnificent fleet ready to sail w... ...erything. I was then obliged to come back again. Six days ago, I landed at Portsmouth.” “Well?” said Felton. “Well; Buckingham heard by some means, no... ...ere will it take me?” “Where you please, after you have put me on shore at Portsmouth.” “What are you going to do at Portsmouth?” asked Milady. “Accom... ...could I know what I was the bearer of?” “That’s true! And you are going to Portsmouth?” “I have no time to lose. T omorrow is the twenty-third, and Bu... ...France, at the convent of the Carmelites at Bethune. 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 F ELTON TOOK LEAVE of Milady as a brother about ... ...uld only see the mast of the sloop. He immediately ran in the direction of Portsmouth, which he saw at nearly half a league before him, standing out i... ...tanding out in the haze of the morning, with its houses and towers. Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of p... ...sent fatigue—all together exalted his mind above human feeling. He entered Portsmouth about eight o’clock in the morn- ing. The whole population was o...

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...am not staying here, but with the Blenkers, in their delicious solitude at Portsmouth. Beaufort was kind enough to send his famous trotters for me thi... ...e Blenkers, dear original beings, have hired a primitive old farm-house at Portsmouth where they gather about them representative people …” She droope... ...ok out the reins over the trotters and turned into the by-roads leading to Portsmouth. The wind had dropped and a faint haze on the horizon showed tha... ...urn to town early in the week, and when he got back from his expedition to Portsmouth a letter from the office, which fate had conspicuously placed on... ...h of air. The hotel’s too stifling. I’m taking the afternoon train back to Portsmouth.” They sat silent, not looking at each other, but straight ahead... ... had burned and burned on his lips; the day be- fore even, on the drive to Portsmouth, the thought of her had run through him like fire; but now that ...

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..., a wild unsteady young fellow, but the son of a respectable shipwright in Portsmouth Y ard, and a good scholar who had been well brought up, comes to...

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...d he was elated as a young man setting forth to travel. When he had passed Portsmouth Town everything had vanished but the old gay world of romance. H... ..., in a very quiet voice, ‘you’d better let me go by the South-Western from Portsmouth while you go on by the Brighton.’ ‘But why?’ she exclaimed in as... ...to think. The train at last moved out of the station. As it passed through Portsmouth, Siegmund remembered his coming down, on the Sunday. It seemed a... ...sky was ripening into evening. The chimneys and the sides of the houses of Portsmouth took on that radiant appearance which transfigures the end of da...

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...o funny, and Mrs. Penrose was so nice. Then that Papa and Sam were gone to Portsmouth, and that they had telegraphed that Sam had succeeded. If it had... ...be? She looked at the round stamp upon the green-lettered paper, and read “Portsmouth.” Could it be from Papa? Then she looked at the cover; but it wa... ...ief of all, however, was that kind Mrs. Penrose had actually taken them to Portsmouth for a couple of nights, to see the Ramilies, in which she was go...

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...ing the neces- sary arrangements to alter the route of the Southampton and Portsmouth Sunday League excursions. A nocturnal news- paper reporter, mist... ...forward upon them from all sides. Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich—even from the north; among others, long wir...

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...ought Mrs Harville, her sister, her cousin, and three children, round from Portsmouth to Ply- mouth. Where was this superfine, extraordinary sort of g... ... to hear of him; he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth. There the news must follow him, but who was to tell it? not I. ... ...ce, but without waiting the return, travelled night and day till he got to Portsmouth, rowed off to the Grappler that instant, and never left the poor...

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... men. Save London, there were only four other cities in Britain—Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Manchester and Shrewsbury. Such things as these, simple stateme... ... set with gigantic slow-moving wind-wheels. Save where the broad Eadhamite Portsmouth Road, thickly dotted with rushing shapes, followed the course of... ...bove the South Downs, and staring over his shoulder saw the battlements of Portsmouth Landing Stage towering over the ridge of Portsdown Hill. In anot...

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...lating among the shipboard crew for a while, finally got rudely printed at Portsmouth as a ballad. The title given to it was the sailor’s. BILLY IN TH...

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...of the earth to send fitting ambassa- dors to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language,... ...roglyphic awe. The landing quay at Alexandria is like the dockyard quay at Portsmouth:with a few score of brown faces scattered among the population. ...

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... themselves as the Godly, the Hon est, and so forth. The war broke out at Portsmouth, where that double trai tor Goring had again gone over to the K... ...the value of two millions of pounds: which dazzling prize was brought from Portsmouth to Lon don in waggons, with the populace of all the towns and v... ... manner the son of a merry waiting lady, whom the King created Duchess of Portsmouth, became the Duke of Rich,pmd . Upon the whole it is not so bad ... ...other, and bleeding from the nose in a third. The young Prince was sent to Portsmouth, Father Petre went off like a shot to France, and there was a ge... ...lved to fly to France. He had the little Prince of Wales brought back from Portsmouth; and the child and the Queen crossed the river to Lambeth in an ... ...hire 431 Douglas 328 Dr. Tonge 413 Duchess of Cleveland 405 Duchess of Portsmouth 405 Duke of Buckingham 413 Duke of Gloucester 384 Duke of Ham...