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SILVER WARMING-PANS

... costly, because the handles were also of the precious meta). A silver warming-pan with a silver handle formed the basis of a complaint to the Wardens of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1600. Such a handle might be made from a flat strip of s ilver with elaborate ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1953
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2988 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

THE COUNTRY HOUSS LIB7(ARY

... as he knew it, still fresh and trim, with portraits of his companions, we would cheerfully hotve gone without the harsh complaints of poverty, and even the praise of that jug of Cretan wine, such as may remind you that Jupiter was nursed in that island ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1910
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4512 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

-and the roots go deep •••

... the mind as tho e m which the de J ongs were imprisoned and told to find God there. It was bleak and dreary Calvinism turned inward and feeding upon its own cancers. \¥hen David fir t took to books, he happened upon translations of Oliver T7pist and Tom ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1944
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4821 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... the door lockit, Taylor; ye canna beat me no\\'. And anyone who knows Anclrew can imagine the scene. There is one more complaint I should like to make, and that is as to the too elaborate Scottification of the book ·wny on earth should an account of ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2640 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

THE CRY OF LIFE

... ngly affirm my preference for the ape. and prays and sings: Till the great fish spouts music as he swims. 1 like his Complaint of a Poet Manque- Moment of Insight W e judge by appearances merely: If I can't think strangely, I can at I quote that whenever ...

Published: Thursday 04 February 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3773 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

SHOOTING IN WESTERN GERMANY

... mile. As soon as everyone has got into position, a bugle is blown, whereupon both guns and beaters proceed to march raclially inward . \i\lhen the intervals bet·een the guns have s hrunk to about fifty or sixty yards, the bugle sounds again. This signifies ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2722 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

A STUDY IN HEA DS

... forward and interfered. ' There will be a meeting of the stewards at the Reindeer to-night, ' he said, 'and if you have any complaint to make, Mr. Lawrence, make it then. ' Lawrence's fri ends now led him away, whilst I made my escape in a cab with Jock ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1897
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5963 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

variety of personae that emerges from the memories of his very wide circle of friends and relations. So far, ..

... Britannica tells you how to avoid frustration, tears and exhaustion, and how to exercise one upmanship when negotiating the inward journey of H ampton Court maze. Fond parents and lovers so minded should note and concentrate on the reverse for the outward ...

Published: Thursday 20 March 1969
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2725 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER CLOUD II

... build is that of a hard-muscled athlete, and he has a massive pair of hands. The crouched add ress, with right knee leaning inwards, makes a solid anchorage for a swing that is fast with a wide solid arc. It is noticeable that, after the fearsome impact ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1960
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4117 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

love, nothing but his killing ?f her soul. This murder he effects

... admired the illuminating intelligence. And so with Miss Maucl J effries. A divinely beautiful fi gure she presented; all the inwardness of the character was there, and now and again Miss Jeffries surmounted everything, and gave adequate expression to the passion ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1900
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7085 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Cubitt & West

... convex surface inwards, laced at intervals with rattan cane or liana hoops, and it is some sixty feet long. H tapers to a diameter nearly big enough to hold a grown pig. At the entrance are pointed but pliant bamboo prongs pointing inwards, so that although ...

Published: Sunday 25 December 1949
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 13342 | Page: 129 | Tags: none

e DEVON, Near Chulmleigh

... problem since taking over the property. The original scheme for a visitor reception building had to be scrapped because of complaints about its design and likely impact on the character of the place. Stonehenge, with its myriad of visitors, poses an even ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1989
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16087 | Page: 139 | Tags: none