 | George Tate - 1866 - 522 pages
..." Belfort nothing like the name either in strength or beauty is the most miserable beggarly sodden town or town of sods that ever was made in an afternoon...nor a peck of oats, and little shelter for horse or man."—Court and Times of CharbsL, II., p. 285. school in 1691, when " Mr. Mathew Wood lately discharged... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1921 - 412 pages
...from the Borders, and even in the reign of Charles I it is described as "the most miserable beggarly town of sods that ever was made in an afternoon of...peck of oats and little shelter for horse or man." In living memory many Northumbrian houses were roofed with sods of turf, or divots as they were called.... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1900 - 432 pages
...(nothing like the name either in strength or Beauty), it being the most miserable, beggarly, sodden Town, or Town of Sods, that ever was made in an afternoon, of loam and sticks; there I tumbled upon Mr Murray, one of the Cupbearers to his Majesty, who had taken up the every and... | |
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Belfort nothing like the name either in strength or beauty, is the most miserable beggarly town or town of sods that ever was made in an afternoon of loam and sticks. In all the town not a loaf of bread, nor a quart of beer, nor a lock of hay, nor a peck... 