The environs of Kilchrist are at the best unlovely, and in the wet they were as melancholy as a graveyard.
Of his immediate environs he was pretty well unconscious.
With a piece of chalk he drew on the kitchen floor a rough sketch of the environs of Huntingtower.
The Tower roof showed mistily beyond the ridge of down, but its environs were not in their prospect.
Our environs were so charming here, that we lingered longer than at any place in the province.
On the third morning from our departure from Paris, when nearly exhausted, the rising sun gave us a view of the environs of Lyons.
The weather was too unpropitious to admit of our seeing much of the environs of the town.
Astolphus peremptorily refused to listen to the remonstrances of Pépin, who called upon him to evacuate the towns in the exarchate of Ravenna, and to leave the Pope unmolested in the environs of Rome as well as in Rome itself.
In the environs of Manila these fathers have the parishes of the Parian and of Binondoc; a hospital, and a church at San Juan de Letran; and Batan in Pampanga.
They were mustered in the city and along the beach in sight of the champans; and were at once divided among the posts that were most suitable--two companies in Cavite, and the rest in the environs of Tondo.
The city of Manila and its environs were full of slaves.
At the same time he sent messengers to the Montenegrins and the Servians, inciting them to revolt, and organised insurrections in Wallachia and Moldavia to the very environs of Constantinople.
The next day a crowd of Catholic peasants from the environs marched into the city, to await the arrival of the Royalist army from Beaucaire.
There are several English families resident here, as the environs are very pretty, and the town itself an agreeable one.
We did not reach Lyons until late at night; and, as I was very much fatigued, and longed to get into the hotel, I thought the length of the environs and suburbs endless.
Most of the cottages in theseenvirons are thatched, and resemble those in England, each having a little garden (inclosed by neat hedges) full of vegetables.
It was no wonder that we were amazed by the number of windmills in the environs of this town; for we learnt that there were no less than two hundred used in making oil, &c.
In the course of the day I drove about the environsin a caleche, and returned the visits of several ladies, for whom we had letters from their friends in England.
An excellent house, in one of the best situations in the environs of this town, with a garden of about two acres well and tastefully planted, was offered to be sold for £400 sterling.
The great mountain walls were dim with twilight, but there was day enough left to see the immediate environs of the road.
The environs are enlivened by many picturesque villas, and every accommodation is provided in the hotels and private lodging-houses for the reception of visitors.
The environs embrace some of the most striking and romantic scenery, as well as historical sites, in England; and so close at hand that many of the finest features enter into the same picture.
One day they all went together to a beautiful neighbouring hunting-seat, in the environsof which a grand hunt was held.
Some days after, as he was walking in the environs of the palace, he found by chance one of the officers who had assisted the young Prince when he was sitting near the fountain which we have already mentioned.
At that time it could be truly said that Washington and its environs was a great camp and hospital.
I have several times visited Kansas City and its environs since 1856.
With them we drove in the old-fashioned coach in and about the environs of Chester.
Our visit to Edinburgh and its environs was to her like a return to familiar scenes.
Early in his administration we formed the habit of taking long drives on each Sunday afternoon, in the environs of Washington.
We visited and kissed the Blarney Stone, saw the Lakes of Killarney, and drove or walked about the interesting environs of Cork and Queenstown.
The little prairie fox was so hungry, and, therefore, so tame, that it often visited the environs of the fort, and we found these pretty little animals among the circles of turf which were left on the removal of the Indian tents.
He and several Indians brought word that his countrymen, from the environs of the Fort des Prairies, on the Saskatschawan River, would shortly visit us, to dispose of all their beaver skins.
Lartet has discovered at Clichy, in the environs of Paris, in the same lower gravel, a well-shaped flint implement of the Amiens type, together with remains both of Elephas primigenius and E.
At several places in the environs of Abbeville there are fluviatile deposits at a higher level by 50 feet than the uppermost beds at Menchecourt, resting in like manner on the Chalk.
But poetry and romance still live unseen among us, or seen only by the enlightened few, who are able to contemplate this city and its environs through the medium of tradition, and clothed with the associations of foregone ages.
In company with the chevalier, I took several excursions on horseback about the environs of Catania, and the picturesque skirts of Mount Etna.
In the environs of this village there are, in all probability, the very best haunts of game in all our county.
I hunted more than once in the environs of Mikhailovskoe at that period, when you were there three years ago,"--I remarked.
It covered some territories in the environs of Catania which had never before been visited by the lavas of Etna.
Such was the case at Tomboro in Sumbawa, in the present century, and at the site of the Temple of Serapis, in the environs of Puzzuoli, probably about the 12th century.
Ground plan of the coast of the Bay of Baiae, in the environs of Puzzuoli.
In the southernenvirons are fine, open fields, where the game "Golf" has been played from time immemorial.
As the drama to be unfolded will be enacted largely in this spot, which nature fashioned on its fairest pattern, and which man has seared with his cruel tool, a description of the town of Wilkes-Barre and its environs is essential.
It is part of Trueman's campaign to go amongst the shops and factories in the environs of the cities to talk with the men, and to picture to them the results that will follow their voting in their own interests.
Hear me; destroy the oppression that environs me, and restore me in the estimation of patriotic men.
Five hundred thousand men were now in presence of each other under the walls or in the environs of Leipsic and a grand battle had become inevitable.
The peasants of the environs were offered as high as a thousand francs for every piece of cannon which they succeeded in dragging from St. Pierre to St. Remy.
The town of Karwan is small but pretty, its environs are agreeable, bazaars frequent, inhabitants well-off.
From hence to Fardan, a commercial town, the environs of which are well populated, four days.
