For a summary of these Acts see Slater, The English Peasantry and of the Enclosure Common Fields, App.
The reverse side, as it appeared to the small holder, is given in a petition, which was fruitless, against the enclosure of a Northamptonshire village (No.
And the aforesaid Alice defends and says that the aforesaid Roger, and not she, is bound to make an enclosure there, and hereon she puts herself upon the country.
Donald from the confines of a little enclosure where the sound of splashing water announced he was already under the shower.
It was then that the whole enclosure fairly vibrated with the soul-stirring strains.
This was an enclosure of about twenty-five acres, surrounded by a high stockade, and by earthworks mounted with cannon.
The few buildings within the enclosure were scarcely enough for hospital purposes, and here, as at Salisbury, the prisoners had to burrow in the earth for shelter.
One end of theenclosure was a swamp, through which crept a sluggish, muddy stream, and this was the only water to which the prisoners had access.
The sounds came from both near and far, some half-muffled in the galleries and caverns of the cliff, others echoing from one side to the other of the rocky enclosure till they died away in the far distance.
Far less than the required number of six thousand hands were raised in the affirmative, and the gathering was dissolved, eddying out of the enclosure in turbulent disorder.
Come, then," Nathan replied, and behind the chariot of Bessus, they arrived at the gates which gave entrance to the enclosure in which stood the royal palace.
Shrubs and flowering plants stood in great vases of stone, screening the enclosure from the eyes of the curious.
So ample was the enclosure that ground enough remained unoccupied between the houses to sustain the population, if necessary, upon its harvests.
A maximum fraction of privateenclosure for each urban and suburban square mile could be fixed.
Once within the enclosure I left Will to tell Fred his story as best suited him, Fred roaring with laughter as he watched Will's rueful face, yet turning suddenly on Brown to curse him like a criminal for laughing, too!
They two drank themselves to sleep among the gentle cattle in the circular enclosure in the midst of the village, and we--going out in turns at intervals to make sure our own boys were not drinking--matured our plans in peace.
Besides, he held his revenge--that enclosurewhich he left barren, uncultivated, by way of protest against the adjoining estate which it intersected.
The enclosure belonging to the Lepailleurs, who stubbornly refused to sell it, alone set a strip of dry, stony, desolate land amid the broad green plain.
Besides, that enclosure has always been a dishonor for the estate, streaking it with stones and brambles, like a nasty sore.
Seguin, however, pretended that if he took up the matter he would know how to bring the miller to reason, and even secure the enclosure for next to nothing.
As you know that there are white roses in the enclosure you must have gone in, eh?
One sole delight remained to him, the promise given and kept by Gregoire that he would not sell the moorland enclosure to the farm.
As Lepailleur would not part with his enclosure on any reasonable terms, Seguin had to content himself for the time with selling Mathieu the selected marshland on the plateau.
Several years previously, no doubt, he had offered Seguin the enclosure for a trifle; but times had changed, and he now crowed loudly over the other's folly in not entertaining his previous offer.
And you will recollect the fine white roses which she helped me to secure in the enclosure by the mill for Denis' wedding.
On the other hand, there seemed little likelihood of his turning the enclosure to account himself, for he was more disgusted than ever with the tilling of the soil.
The Lepailleurs' uncultivated enclosure alone remained, as if to bear witness to the prodigy, the great human effort which had quickened that desert of sand and mud, whose crops would henceforth nourish so many happy people.
She persuaded him at last to sell you that terrible enclosure at such an insane price that he will be able to shout 'victory!
He had turned into the narrow and steep street from which the court of enclosure wherein the house stood opened, when another footstep turned into it behind him, and so close upon his own that he was jostled to the wall.
In this dilemma, Mistress Affery, with her apron as a hood to keep the rain off, ran crying up and down the solitary paved enclosure several times.
The site of his palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the tower of Queen Militsa, whither, according to legend, tidings of the defeat were brought her by crows from the battlefield.
His boma orenclosure contains quite a village of hive-shaped huts and square tembes.
However brave the Wagunda may be within the strong enclosure with which they have surrounded their principal village, they are not exempt from the feeling of insecurity which fills the soul of a Mnyamwezi during war-time.
And it is before Tengga's enclosureon his end of the beach.
They crowded the patches of shade under the three lofty forest trees left within the enclosure between the sun-smitten empty spaces of hard-baked ground.
Adjoining the palace was a "Haw," or small enclosuresurrounded by a cloister, filled with tombs, and upon the walls was a grisly picture of the Dance of Death.
In short, this enclosure and plantation have totally destroyed the beauty of this part of the estate.
That impudent fellow, Old Rose, stated the number ofEnclosure Bills as an indubitable proof of "national prosperity.
The road up to it through the outer enclosure is almost impassable with mud and stones.
The stern old ramparts of Rome form the outer enclosure of the villa, and hence a series of "striking scenic effects" which it would be unscrupulous flattery to say you can imagine.
The inhabitants of this enclosure can, without crossing its limits, procure everything necessary to material life.
We must picture to ourselves a large enclosure of wretched houses, irregularly built, divided by small streets with no attempt at uniformity.
This celebrated place of execution consisted of a heavy mass of masonry, composed of ten or twelve layers of rough stones, and formed an enclosure of forty feet by twenty-five or thirty.
On some occasions they killed animals of all sorts by thousands, after having tracked and driven them into anenclosure composed of cloths or nets.
Old Qubani, who was squatting against the enclosure talking to a roughish-looking white man, rose to his feet as he saw Driffield, and with hand uplifted poured forth lavish sibongo.
Outside the enclosure Lamont picked up his gun, which in accordance with native etiquette he had left there, taking care, however, that there were no cartridges in it, in case of accidents.
The prize tent was at the farther end of the enclosure and facing the Ehlatini ridge, towards which the spectators' backs were, by the position, of necessity turned.
The chief's quarters were in a little enclosure apart, right on the opposite side of the kraal.
The envelope had been opened, but the enclosure still remained in it.
It was simply the enclosure of a few hapless lines of verse, in which the name of Clotilde occurred, and which had been found in the clearance of my chamber preparatory to my journey.
On this occasion, according to the arrangements previously made, the veteran soldiers who remained in the army, were alone to be admitted within the enclosure round the monument.
I believe the enclosure of this garden will be about a thousand feet each way, and that it will ultimately be bounded (at least on three sides) with rows of houses forming a vast square, of which the Pinakothek will occupy the centre.
After the 23rd of September the enclosure of Stones Hill was thrown open to the public; and it will be easily imagined what was the concourse of visitors to this spot!
No one was admitted within the enclosure except a delegation of members of the Gun Club, who had made the voyage to Tampa Town.
Barbicane, therefore, opened the enclosure to all comers; but, true to his practical disposition, he determined to coin money out of the public curiosity.
The Frenchman and the two Americans had by this time entered the enclosure reserved in the centre of the multitude.
It is a square enclosure three or four feet in height; the back is dug out of the sloping bank, the front wall is built up with turf.
So it is rather hard for the dogs, when we turn the corner of the mission enclosureand are going a bit up-hill through the long grass.
