county-town

I had already been three months in prison; and although I was still weak, and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the county-town, where the court was held.

Chapter 4 2010

I had already been three months in prison; and although I was still weak, and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the county-town, where the court was held.

Chapter 21 2010

Vitka Kempner was born on March 14, 1920 in the county-town of Kalisz (Kalisch), western Poland, one-third of whose population was Jewish.

Vitka Kempner-Kovner. 2009

Casterbridge, the county-town, was a dozen or fifteen miles off; and though in those days, when men were executed for horse-stealing, arson, and burglary, an assize seldom passed without a hanging, it was not likely that she could get access to the body of the criminal unaided.

Wessex Tales 2006

Beyond all this winked a few bleared lamplights through the beating drops — lights that denoted the situation of the county-town from which he had appeared to come.

Wessex Tales 2006

The calendar at Melchester had been light, occupying the court only a few hours; and the assizes at Casterbridge, the next county-town on the Western Circuit, having no business for Raye, he had not gone thither.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Aldbrickham, the county-town of their native place.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The distant sound of a gun reverberated through the air — apparently from the direction of the county-town.

Wessex Tales 2006

In a remote nook in North Wessex, forty miles from London, near the thriving county-town of Aldbrickham, there stood a pretty village with its church and parsonage, which she knew well enough, but her son had never seen.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

In spite of its loneliness, however, the spot, by actual measurement, was not more than five miles from a county-town.

Wessex Tales 2006