The inhabitants say, they were either destroyed by the Saracens in their successive descents upon the coast, by the barbarous nations in their repeated incursions, or used in fortifying the castle, as well as in building other edifices.
Sicilies, and count of Provence, in order to defend the harbour from the descents of the Saracens, who at that time infested the coast.
The catacombs were in all probability dug, in former times, as places of retreat for the inhabitants upon sudden descents of the Saracens, who greatly infested these seas for several successive centuries.
The second was that, even if such descents could be counted, one of his mother's brothers had left a daughter, the Queen of Navarre, and the son of that princess had a better female claim than Edward himself.
The men of Calais had made many piratical descents on England, and Edward was known to bear them a grudge for this.
Accordingly they now allowed the Athenians to ravage their seaboard, without making any movement, the garrisons in whose neighbourhood the descents were made always thinking their numbers insufficient, and sharing the general feeling.
Making descents from the fleet he ravaged certain places on the sea-coast, and captured Thronium and took hostages from it.
Is Edmondson's Genealogy correct, or are there any intermediatedescents omitted?
There are many miry places, many ascents and descents and many difficult river passes, the Yuna River, near Bonao, being crossed by ferry.
On some of the steep descents the horses and mules accustomed to the road put their four feet together and slide, while the unaccustomed traveler feels his hair standing on end.
For two centuries and a half the Avars, a remnant of the Huns entrenched in the Hungarian Mesopotamia, had made descents alternately upon the Germans and upon the Greeks of the Eastern empire.
The journey is comprised of pleasant ascents and descents over the latter portion of the great Yün-nan Plateau, and a very appreciable difference in the temperature was here noticed.
The British and Irish custom of deriving descents through women is well known, {273d} and a story is told to account for the practice.
On Sir Henry Maine's system, then, the gens rather proves the constant existence of recognised male descents among the peoples where it exists.
Relieved from the terror of immediate destruction, the Algerines returned to their old ways, making descents on the coast of Provence, where they committed the most dreadful ravages, killing, burning and destroying all that came in their way.
Their corsairs making descents on the coasts of those countries which border on the Mediterranean, pillaging the villages and carrying off the inhabitants into slavery.
The ridge is only just wide enough for the camps, and falls down in abrupt descentsto the source of the Ab-i-Sefid.
The ascents anddescents were endless and severe as we crossed the mountain spurs.
Six alternate windows are filled with the arms and descents of the wives of Henry VIII.
Besides, occasional descents from the higher platforms of admiration, to which special points of interest are apt to summon you, give time for reflection and observation.
It appears that Garnerin subsequently made many equally successful parachute descents in France, and during the short peace of 1802 visited London, where he gave an exhibition of his art.
At the foot of the precipitous slopes, the river can be heard brawling in a torrent over its stony bed, and there are sharp descents among thickets of juniper and the fringed roots of the dwarf-pines.
Usually, we turn away with contempt from those wretched centuries which underwent the descents of the Barbarians.
The Indians of the Sierra make frequent descents upon the settlements west of the Coast Range, which they keep constantly swept of horses; among them are many who are called Christian Indians, being refugees from Spanish missions.
The road seemed very rough and broken, the rises and descents grew sharper, and the forest scenery wilder.
Prior to this the rude Norse Vikings were wont to make sudden descents on these islands, as well as along the whole Scottish coast, spoiling and slaying with the most remorseless cruelty.
While, however, the Norse marauders were making descents with increased frequency on our shores, a revolution was taking place in Norway, somewhat akin to that which placed the Dalriadic chief on the Pictish throne.
It is towards the close of the eighth century that we first hear of the descents of the Northmen on the Pictish kingdom.
In one respect only did this expedition differ from the former piratical descents of the Northmen.
We had come to streams, where again, owing to the precipitous descents on the slippery high banks, several mules fell over and rolled down into the stream.
After several ascents and descents and a great many mishaps with our mules, unaccustomed yet to the work, we made camp, having marched 18 kil.
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