"Somerset" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A Bridgewater, Somerset, man of eighty (or octogeranium) has cancelled his wedding on the morning of the ceremony. A few more exhibitions of that kind and he will end ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various
... train beyond Omegon and into the northwest for eight or ten hours, owing to extensive damage by the floods. Repairs to bridges and roadbed were necessary. In the meantime, the passengers would be cared for at the Somerset Hotel in Omegon, at the company's expense. The company regretted ...
— The Flyers • George Barr McCutcheon
... be useful to you to know that the Chancellor, Dr. Lushington, the three Law Officers, Sir G. Grey, the Duke of Somerset, and myself, met at the Treasury to-day to consider what we could properly do about the American cruiser come, no doubt, to search the West Indian packet supposed to be bringing hither the two Southern envoys; ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... fray.]—The battle of Pinkey, in which the Protector Somerset defeated the Scots with great slaughter, ...
— Kemps Nine Daies Wonder - Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich • William Kemp
... nearly all our modern fruits, though many show by their names, which are Latin or Norman, a later introduction. They made use of butter, honey, and cheese. They drank ale and mead. The latter is still made, but in small quantities, in Somerset and Hereford shires. The Normans brought over the custom ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner
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