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Example sentences for "ordinaries"

Lexicographically close words:
ordinance; ordinances; ordinar; ordinare; ordinarie; ordinarily; ordinario; ordinarius; ordinary; ordinate
  1. I was also very sick of been ficas, grives, or thrushes, and other little birds, which are served up twice a day at all ordinaries on the road.

  2. Prelates, superiors, Ordinaries and inquisitors were ordered to inquire against and prosecute all transgressors and to punish them condignly as vehemently suspect of heresy, for all of which he granted full powers.

  3. Foremost among the requirements exacted by the ordinaries from all alike was the duty of attending church.

  4. Having now reviewed the chief administrative functions of the spiritual courts and their mode of exercise, the question presents itself, What were the means at the disposal of the ordinaries for enforcing their decrees?

  5. It is constantly mentioned in the metropolitan or diocesan injunctions or articles of the period,[158] and the proceedings before the ordinaries bear witness to its enforcement.

  6. Also they affect to divide these into Honourable Ordinaries and Sub-Ordinaries without explaining the reason for the superior honour of the Saltire or for the subordination of the Quarter.

  7. With the Ordinaries we may take the Roundels or Pellets, disks or balls of various colours.

  8. The writers upon armory have given the name of Ordinaries to certain conventional figures commonly charged upon shields.

  9. Notable ordinaries of arms are those of Papworth and Renesse, companions to the armorials of Burke and Rietstap.

  10. Whereas it is most apparently found that the many ordinaries [taverns] in severall parts of the country are very prejudiciall .

  11. Ordinaries and Taverns to be licensed by the Governor, on recommendation of the Justices of the counties concerned,--with power to suppress for misbehaviour.

  12. The host of the Black Boy at Doncastor, who really pro- vided race ordinaries in no ordinary way.

  13. Ever on the alert for novelty, we hopped into and dined at the Coal Hole Tavern in the Strand, certainly one of the best and cheapest ordinaries in London, and the society not of the meanest.

  14. The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison The gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St. James’s, at either of which ordinaries Esmond was free to dine.

  15. Very few writers agree as to which are ordinaries and which subordinaries; nor does there seem any reason why any distinction between them should exist.

  16. These Ordinaries may be formed by any of the Border Lines, No.

  17. The probable structural origin of these Ordinaries is sufficiently apparent to render any further comment on that interesting circumstance superfluous.

  18. It was a town of stores, of ordinaries and public places; from open door and window all along Duke of Gloucester Street came laughter, round oaths, now and then a scrap of drinking song.

  19. No people can entertain their friends with better cheer and welcome; and stranger and traveler is here treated in the most free, plentiful, and hospitable manner; so that a few Inns or Ordinaries on the road are sufficient.

  20. But the apothecaries were the most usual salesmen, and their shops and the ordinaries were the customary day meeting-places for the more fashionable smokers.

  21. He preferred the old English ordinaries where English food was given a French name.

  22. The French ordinaries held an important place in the daily round of the beau.

  23. The matter of cost of food, drink and lodging in the public inns was a subject close to the heart of the eighteenth century colonial and Loudoun's Court lost no time in taking control of the ordinaries within its boundaries.

  24. One of the ordinaries thus frequented by Lord Fairfax was West's on the old Carolina Road, just south of the present Lee-Jackson Highway, and in the territory now hunted by the Middleburg pack.

  25. They have also the title of honourable ordinaries in that the court armour is much honoured thereby.

  26. Another cause of the bad effect of much modern heraldry is the unnecessary adherence to the rules laid down in some of the textbooks and manuals as to the relative widths of ordinaries and subordinaries.

  27. The same principle as the ridging of a shield to relieve the plain surface was also applied to the ordinaries upon it.

  28. Almost from the beginning every kind of device was charged or painted upon shields, either singly or in multiple, and upon or about such ordinaries as crosses, cheverons, and fesses.

  29. But the ordinaries did scant business as lodging-places.

  30. Grave and respectable citizens were chosen to keep the early ordinaries and sell liquor.

  31. By 1668 so many small tippling-houses and petty ordinaries existed in the colony of Virginia that laws were passed restricting the number in each county to one at the court-house, and possibly one at a wharf or ferry.

  32. He had little time for tavern life, and little inclination to it; and he condemned men who "kept ordinaries and sold rum.

  33. But it must not be imagined that there were at the time of this sale many colonial ordinaries as amply furnished as the King's Arms.

  34. There were in Boston at different times several ordinaries and taverns known as the King's Arms.

  35. Many of the Puritan ordinaries were thus used.

  36. Soon the power of granting licenses was transferred to the County Courts, as the constant increase in the number of ordinaries made too constant detailed work for so important a body as the General Court.

  37. We know that even the early ordinaries had sign-boards.

  38. One of the first serious protests against the increase of ordinaries and ale-houses in the colonies, and appreciation of their pernicious effects, came from Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, Massachusetts.

  39. Soon the Virginia ordinaries had plentiful domestic and imported liquors, and at very low prices.

  40. Most of the ordinaries have their diminutives, as the bendlet, the pallet, the cheveronel, &c.

  41. These are usually bounded by straight lines; but the ordinaries themselves admit of a variety of modifications of outline, as follows: 1.

  42. If Heraldry had to be established de novo, something of the sort might be done, by giving each family a patent right to a particular ordinary, provided the ordinaries were much more numerous than they are.

  43. At Jamestown orders were given in 1663 to build a statehouse in lieu of the alehouses and ordinaries where laws had been made previously.

  44. Such buildings were to take the place of private dwellings and ordinaries in the same way as did the statehouse at Jamestown.

  45. So long as court kept, there was need for ordinaries and ferries and for independent jacks-of-all-trades like Andrews.

  46. It was an unhappy contrast to the vision of a town governed by "benchers of the guild hall," bustling with mercantile activity, swarming on busy market days with ordinaries filled with people.

  47. Stopovers were made either at ordinaries or at the houses of friends.


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