 | 1820 - 590 Seiten
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown' to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 Seiten
...the .town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 Seiten
...the town of Ashby, was au extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...display which was intended, sloped gradually down oh all sides to a level bottom, which waa inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 Seiten
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 304 Seiten
...green turf, surrounded on one side Jby the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground,...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, formed a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
 | 1830 - 288 Seiten
...beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by a forest, and fringed 2 on the other by straggling 3 oak-trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned4 on purpose for the martial display 5, which was intended, sloped gradually down6 on all... | |
 | Ashby de la Zouch - 1831 - 234 Seiten
...other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to immense size. The ground as if fashioned for the martial display which was intended, sloped...to a level bottom which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length and about half as broad. The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 Seiten
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of aqiiarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...green turf, surrounded on one side by llie forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial diaOn a platform beyond the southern entrance, formed by a natural elevation of the ground, were pitched... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 Seiten
...meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed ou the other by straggling oak-trees, some of which had...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
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The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by... 
