Itm

In April 1537, her accountant recorded an "Itm geuen to the mariage of one of the Ewry the xvth Daye of this mounth."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

The April 1538 entry was typical: "Itm geuen to a prieste of Windesor who teacheth a Childe of Dauid ap Rice."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Itm gorge by night, except when the moon was directly overhead.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

If, as at present, they were only a battalion, they would hardly dare move; and should they let it fall while waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Akaba would surrender to us, and we should be based on the sea and have the advantageous gorge of Itm between us and the enemy.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

After such solemnities came the ride up the oppressive gorge of Itm, under the red cliffs of Nejed and over the breast-like curves of Imran — that slow preparation for

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

In the beginning it was clean sandstone country, of pleasant rock-shapes: but as we went spines of granite, the material of the shore, rose up in front of us, and after thirty miles of good trotting gradient we passed, by the southern Itm, into the main valley, just above the well of the surrender of Akaba.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Neither had been on a camel before, and there was risk that the fearful heat of the naked granite walls of Itm might knock them out before the trip had properly begun.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Their men had been drawn in to Khadra, the entrenched position (at the mouth of Itm), which covered Akaba so well against a landing from the sea.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Itm, to collect our Howeitat from Auda in Guweira.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Akaba, the only Turkish port left in the Red Sea, the nearest to the Suez Canal, the nearest to the Hejaz Railway, on the left flank of the Beersheba army; suggesting its occupation by a composite brigade, which should advance up Wadi Itm for a crushing blow at

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003