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  • Kempton Farms in Peacham milks 300 cows, and each month the Cloth-Bound takes just four days 'worth.

    the Art of Eating: Ed Behr: Real Cheese and the Struggle to Preserve Vermont's Landscape the Art of Eating 2010

  • So Mrs. Horne threw out all Lucy's sketches of Peacham, Vt., and decided she wanted for her mural a rendition of the frontispiece of her favorite book as a child, Wesley Dennis's magnificent illustration of seven Arabian stallions dashing across the desert in Marguerite Henry's book King of the Wind.

    Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?' 2006

  • It did not say “to be read at my funeral,” although the prayer was indeed read again at the service, ten days later, when all the family came from all over the world and we gathered for a “Celebration of the Life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh” in the Congregational Church in Peacham, Vermont, where my mother had been to services many times over the years.

    No More Words Reeve Lindbergh 2001

  • It did not say “to be read at my funeral,” although the prayer was indeed read again at the service, ten days later, when all the family came from all over the world and we gathered for a “Celebration of the Life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh” in the Congregational Church in Peacham, Vermont, where my mother had been to services many times over the years.

    No More Words Reeve Lindbergh 2001

  • She passed numbers reading 2100, 2600, 3300, and skirted ponds with names like Goshen and Vengeance and Peacham.

    Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995

  • In other respects Peacham deserves our attention, and especially for his treatises on drawing and painting, Graphice (1606) and the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • It is worth noting that Peacham composed other emblem books: Basilicon doron and Emblemata varia, several manuscripts of which are extant in the British

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • Thus we see in Peacham a popular illustration of the two main streams of influence in the handling of mythology: the literary and the figurative; and we note that the taste for pictorial representation of the myths of the gods, so evident in the sixteenth century, con - tinues into the next.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • For our purpose, the importance of Peacham is his recog - nition of the interrelationship between poetry and the other arts, with considerable attention to mythology.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • In 1613 he attained to the long-desired dignity of attorney-general, a post which he filled with power and energy, but which he disgraced by the torture of Peacham, an old clergyman, who was charged with having written treason in a sermon which he never preached nor published.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

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