As I approached the frontiers of Arabia, a famous robber, named Arbogad, seized me and sold me to some merchants who brought me to this castle where ford Ogul resides.
The ford Ogul hath promised his hand to the female slave that brings him a basilisk.
For a moment JAMES FORD looks at him, then silently goes out.
I should like to say, before we go any further, that it is with the greatest regret that Mr. Fordand I have come up to London on such an errand.
He whips himself into a rage as he flings the scornful invective at JAMES FORD and ends up on the last words in a positive scream of fury.
He and Ford control the dissenting interest between them.
If Mr. Ford is not going to keep you long I should like to speak to you afterwards.
During the rest of the scene JAMES FORD is thinking the matter over.
We passed the river at a ford called Passorico, under the command of Major-General Gower.
That over the Ezla had been destroyed to little purpose, as a ford was found only 300 yards farther down the river.
I speak of Ford Madox Brown, who recently passed away in the fulness of respected years and in the unabated intensity of his convictions.
Colonel Ford expressed a desire to take the clock home with him to show it to his wife.
Gibb headed a party, who followed him into the moorlands, and at the Ford Moss, between Airth and Stirling, burned their Bibles, as an act of solemn adherence to their new faith.
Prissy is thrilled to death," said Desire to Jack, as they followed the Ford with as much speed as the tired horses were able to make.
The trusty Ford never made such good time as it did going down to the cabin and back.
A ramshackle Ford jerked to a sudden halt right in front of the house, and a tall, thin man backed carefully out from the driver's seat and ambled up the path toward her.
About twelve o'clock a Ford coupe was seen in the distance, and soon came to a stop beside the Wistmores who, one and all, stood in a row in front of the camp.
The sound of an approaching automobile broke the country stillness, and Judge Herbine's Ford presently stopped.
There, too, was located a ford for watering horses and cattle, which was in use up to the present century.
Ford and myself about his yarn, wherein I find the board to yield on my side, and was glad thereof, though troubled that the office should fall upon me of disobliging Sir Richard.
Ford to be my enemy by it; but I care not, for it is my duty, and so did get his bill stopped for the present.
Ford told me) the Aldermen of the City did attend her in their habits, and did present her with a gold Cupp and L1000 in gold therein.
Ford did report all the officers of the navy to be rated for the Loyal Sufferers, but finding him at the Rhenish wine-house I could not have any answer, but must take another time.
He was placed at a village where there was a ford across the river.
Do you cover the retreat with your men at the ford of the river.
After nightfall the force approached the enemy's camp; at the ford the infantry halted, the cavalry crossing and continuing their way to the camp, about a mile distant.
It is well if the Roundheads at Reading do not sally out and attack us, seeing how useful this ford would be to them.
Just at the ford itself stood a large water-mill, worked by a stream which here ran into the river.
The Roundheads halted when they reached the river, and formed rapidly into a column, twelve abreast, for the ford was no wider.
So he went back to where he had left his horse eating a little grass, and since it was too weak to carry him he led it, following Van Vooren's spoor backwards till in the evening he came to the ford of the Red River.
Among these Nicholas Breton and Emmanuel Ford may be taken as examples.
A terrible stream is that Findhorn, as Mr St John well knows; but we question whether he ever ventured to ford it on the rise, as was done by one of the Stuarts.
It was a penance, self-inflicted, because of a mishap that occurred at theford here to a young boy, heir of the Nevilles, whom Wat had carried off from his home in Northumberland.
It was not till 1766, when Smeaton completed his fine bridge, that any other crossing of the stream than by the ford was possible.
It was at this Ashiesteel ford that Leyden, when Sir Walter's guest, came to grief.
On September 3rd, the Scots are said to have wrecked Ford Castle, now a substantial and comfortable home, still containing the king's rooms.
It was lying at the bottom, below what used to be a ford of sorts across the river.
In half an hour from the ford we crossed Wady Mous (Arabic), coming from the mountains of Adjeloun.
It is probable that there are hot springs in the bottom of the lake, which near the ford is nowhere deeper than three or four feet; and generally only two feet.
From the ford over the Sheriat we proceeded across the plain in a N.
Some Arabs assured me that there are spots in this ford where the water is quite hot, and where the bottom is of red earth.
About five miles from town they saw a big touring car approaching, and as it neared them they beheld Will Ford and his chum Frank in it.
The father of Grace and Will Ford was a lawyer with more than a local reputation.
Mr. Ford had written to Harry Smith, his half-brother, and arranged for the girls to occupy one of the bungalows for several days.
In the afternoon of the same day they neared Ruffec, and at the ford found three brigands ready, two of whom the Prince slew, and the other fled.
It befell just two days later, about noon, that while Richard idly talked with Branwen a party of soldiers, some fifteen in number, rode down the river's bank from the ford above.
The earthworks, commanding a ford of the river, are apparently of very early date, and probably bore a castle from Norman times.
It is more interesting to notice an epigram in honour of Ford by Richard Crashaw, morbidly passionate in one direction as Ford was in another.
Of the other plays written by Ford alone, only The Chronicle Historie of Perkin Warbeck.
In the same year one John Ford for his services as a witch-finder was admitted a burgess along with Lord Kinghorne.
The name of John Ford appears in the university register of Oxford as matriculating at Exeter College in 1601.
Together with Dowland, immortalized in one of Shakespeare's sonnets, Fordis the chief representative of the school which preceded Henry Lawes.
He dwells with great force upon the different treatment applied by Ford to the characters of the two miserable lovers--brother and sister.
He hastens forth, overcomes the knight, seeks again the damsel's love, but is sent by her to the Ford Perillous.
It is remarkable that Chrestien should never mention Brons, and that there should be such a difference in the stories of the Ford Perillous and the Ford Amorous.
Perceval comes to a ford and is challenged by its guardian, whom he overcomes.
Numbers of little children were disporting themselves in the stream, which we had to ford in order to get to the tents.
The river at the time was very low; but owing to the inequality of its bed and the rapidity of the current, some care had to be taken in crossing the ford for fear any of the packhorses should come to grief.
No such mishap occurred, however, and, safely reaching the bottom, we proceeded to ford the river.
THE FIRST GAME CAMP In the review of "first" impressions with which we are concerned, we must now skip a week or ten days to stop at what is known in our diaries as the First Ford of the Guaso Nyero River.
The ford was in swift water just above a deep still pool suspected of crocodiles.
Ford breaking to my Lord our business of our patent to be Justices of the Peace in the City, which he stuck at mightily; but, however, Sir R.
Ford moved it very weightily and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now.
Ford told me how this day, at Christ church Hospital, they have given a living of 200l.
Anon I saw people stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes up the sexton from my Lady Ford to tell me the news, (which I had brought) being now sent into the church by Sir W.
Ford a very able man of his brains and tongue, and a scholler.
Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day: and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.
Sir Richard Ford told us this evening an odd story of the basenesse of the Lord Mayor, Sir W.
Ford knows him to be a fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and cajoled him into a consent to it: but so as I believe when he comes to his right mind to-morrow he will be of another opinion; and though Sir R.
Sun; corresponding to Ath-lone, or Ford of the Moon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ford" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
