Wharncliffe

It was in Wharncliffe Forest that Friar Tuck, the jolly chaplain of

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

They, on the day of, or immediately before the Wharncliffe meeting of the Oswestry Company, got their friends to pay into the bankers in respect of their shares, and give their proxies to the extent of the 0. 25th in money, against the clauses in the

The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway

Footnote 392: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu met many of these pairs at Rome, where she writes that, by herding together and throwing away their money on worthless objects, they had acquired the title of Golden Asses, and that Goldoni adorned his dramas with "gli milordi Inglesi" in the same manner as Molière represented his Parisian marquises (_Letters_, ed. Wharncliffe, London, 1893, vol.ii. p. 327).

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

He died at Wharncliffe, the family seat of the Wortleys, where he had lived in a most miserly manner.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

Wharncliffe, in an excursion to Saratoga and the Lake George country.

James Fenimore Cooper 1901

Wharncliffe, in the first instance, had concluded his speech against the second reading by the blunt motion that the Bill be rejected; and it was only when it had been pressed upon his attention that such a method of disposing of the measure would be a downright insult to the

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1898

These are relics of Lady Mary, and were probably left at her husband's heritage of Wharncliffe, in Yorkshire, when the first happiness of her married life had come to an end, and before she became engaged in those famous travels which, by their result -- the introduction of inoculation for the smallpox -- raised her even to a greater eminence than that given by her intellectual ability.

The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892

Wharncliffe and I are off to the New Club to see Desforéts.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

Wharncliffe, who was in reality going up the ladder hand over hand, and meant very soon to be on the top rungs.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'By Jove!' he said afterward to Wharncliffe as they walked away from the door together, 'she was inimitable to-night; she has more rôles than Desforêts!'

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885