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Example sentences for "barrow"

  • And in the Resurrectio Pilate rewards the gaoler for his trustiness with the Cornish manors of 'Fekenal, Carvenow and Merthyn,' and promises the soldiers by the Sepulchre 'the plain of Dansotha and Barrow Heath.

  • The place where the river actually rises is called Barrow Stones.

  • Feeling very sorry for the thoughtlessness which had given her the needless trouble and expense I invited her to my home and gave her some money for a barrow to take herself and child home the following day.

  • I did not dare leave my barrow or the coal would be stolen, and I did not dare stay there or I would freeze, so I just knelt down by the roadside and asked God to send some one to help me.

  • He mended my barrow and helped me down the hill.

  • The beginning of the breaking of the ice of prejudice came when one day a man wheeled into the hospital yard a barrow on which lay his sick wife.

  • Just as the woman was about to rouse the sleeping household her attention was attracted to a man wheeling a barrow on which lay a sick child.

  • With this parting thrust and a polite bow, the man caught up his barrow and hurried on.

  • As the man with the barrow disappeared in the distance, Dr.

  • I was wheeling a barrow full of coal down a steep place the other evening when it broke down.

  • We looked down on the barrow as it passed.

  • The old woman seized the shafts of this barrow and began to wheel it after the first.

  • Suddenly Shosshi darted between the shafts and made a dash off with the barrow down the side street.

  • Widow Finkelstein stood up for her rights, and even hung on to the barrow for them.

  • At two o'clock he tied his articles to the barrow with a complicated arrangement of cords.

  • Presently Mr. Barrow himself appeared upon the scene with a larger detachment of troops, and in the presence of this exhibition of force the convicts retired quietly enough to their barracks.

  • Numbers of victims were carried out from the city and hastily buried in the 'Barrow Field'.

  • The tower of Great Barrow Church, with urns in the place of pinnacles, and the porch of Frodsham, are out of keeping with the Gothic character of the rest of the buildings.

  • The barrow was erected over the urn by piling stones and covering them with soil and turf.

  • Among the burnt bones in a barrow at this spot were found a flint[1] knife and arrow-head, for it was believed that the dead man would require his tools and weapons after death just as in his lifetime.

  • Frank was sitting on the edge of the barrow watching him intently.

  • He did not seek the boys, who were playing in the timber-yard that the old barrow was a Punch-and-Judy show.

  • The first barrow to be opened in England was examined by the orders of a great landlord; the fine discoveries of Titsey Park were directly due to the initiative of its owner, the inheritor of Gresham's land.

  • And I always notice that for one barrow load of stones that go out, it takes at least two barrow loads of earth to fill in.

  • I was soaring my long course from the framework on the old barrow by my sheds down to Tinker's Corner.

  • Indeed the most dangerous sort of labour—such as working horse-barrow runs, in which accidents are of constant occurrence—has always been most in request amongst them, the danger seeming to be one of its chief recommendations.

  • The top layer of slates would all come cocking their outer edges up as the barrow passed over their inner ones, would they not?

  • Imagine a barrow with such a wheel; what then would happen to your slates?

  • When we had first met beside his vegetable barrow in the London Road he certainly seemed a hard-working, respectable fellow, with a voice rendered hoarse and rough by constantly shouting his wares.

  • These fleets probably sailed up the Barrow from Waterford harbour.

  • Jeromes and Barrow paid one-third of the cost of its erection.

  • During these ten years Jeromes and Barrow made more than any other company.

  • Barrow came hurriedly into the room, followed by a nurse.

  • Barrow says if you had not found me when you did I should have died.

  • Barrow remained at the Manor House most of the night.

  • Barrow is an old woman in some things," he retorted.

  • Barrow says he ought not to think of working for another month.

  • Barrow tell the nurse that you bound up my head splendidly.

  • Barrow tells me that you were near the spot at the time of the accident," Sir John went on; "for that reason I am glad you have called.

  • The old man put down the barrow on the ground, looked up in his master's face, spat into his hands, and then again resumed his barrow.

  • Hopkins, still holding the barrow from the ground, but not as yet progressing.

  • On the following morning he found the old man himself wheeling a huge barrow of manure round from the yard into the kitchen-garden.


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