glebes

Lydia's glebes, where gold abounds, and Phrygia have I left behind; o'er Persia's sun-baked plains, by Bactria's walled towns and

The Bacchantes 2008

Lydia's glebes, where gold abounds, and Phrygia have I left behind; o'er Persia's sun-baked plains, by Bactria's walled towns and

The Bacchantes 2008

Unlike many of the neighbouring provinces, Virginia was a Church of England colony: the clergymen were paid by the State and had glebes allotted to them; and, there being no Church of England bishop as yet in

The Virginians 2006

Christian? and which he most considered, the loss of a few dirty, miry glebes, or of his soul?

Lay Morals 2005

He had professed himself indifferent to mitres and diaconal residences, to rich livings and pleasant glebes, and now he had to own to himself that he was sighing for the good things of other men on whom, in his pride, he had ventured to look down.

Barchester Towers 2004

In the townships; in informal settlements; amongst the civics; in the midst of workers; in churches, mosques and temples; in the professions and business; at universities, technikons and colleges; amongst students and academics; amongst women and youth; in sports and cultural formations; emaKhosini nasezinduneni; in farms, factories, mission stations and glebes; in the regional councils, in the TLCs and Metro; within the NNP, DP and every other formation.

SPEECH BY S'BU NDEBELE ANC KWAZULU-NATAL CHAIRPERSON AT THE ANC 88th ANNIVERSARY 2000

Their glebes have risen in value from thirty-two hundred millions in 1850 to sixty-six hundred ten years later, and ninety-three hundred in 1870.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Money is provided for building churches; lands are granted for glebes and church-yards; and salaries for the different rectors are fixed and appointed, payable from the provincial treasury.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

I hesitate not, however, to express the opinion, in which I have been and am sustained by many of the best friends of the Church then and ever since, that nothing could have been more injurious to the cause of true religion in the Episcopal Church, or to its growth in any way, than the continuance of either stipend or glebes.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

Certes here they resemble the pope very much; for, as he sendeth out his idols, so do they their parasites, pages, chamberlains, stewards, grooms, and lackeys; and yet these be the men that first exclaim of the insufficiency of the ministers, as hoping thereby in due time to get also their glebes and grounds into their hands.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart