The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
When the Reformation came, the roods were all swept away by order, but the rood lofts in some cases became utilised as galleries for the singers.
The epicentre appears to have been that part of the metropolis which constitutes the Inn's Quay ward and parish of Saint Michan covering a surface of fortyone acres, two roods and one square pole or perch.
Thus he was taken to a moraï, a solid construction of stone forty roods long and fourteen high.
There the sick, installed in a house, found themselves prohibited from going more than thirty roods from their hospital.
Here, too, five martyrs were burnt, and in the first year of Elizabeth's reign a mass of roods and images shared the same fate.
This screen was formerly the rood-screen, and a large crucifix stood on it; but at the Reformation all roods were destroyed, and sometimes the organ stands in its place.
The word jung is now used by the Javans for a certain measure of land; but this differs so much in different districts, that it is impossible to ascertain how many square roods of land a jung ought to contain.
That the ground on which the fort was to be built, should be ceded to the Dutch, with an extent of one hundred roods in every direction.
Also they reap 3 roods of 'averype,' and plough and harrow 3 roods of 'averere.
And four of these roods lying side by side made [p003] the acre strip in the open fields, and still make up the statute acre.
That is to say, a turf balk separated every two rods orroods in the ploughing, the length of the furrow remaining the same.
Walter Colpeper for 22 acres 3 roods of land, as above, 5s.
In another quarter, the moving torches reveal to him now and then, through the misty light, a couple of acres of living wool, orroods of pigs' skins.
I chased your policeman down the Roods with my lantern, and then came here to amuse myself with you.
He must have taken the short cut through Lunan's close, for at the top of the Roods his voice again made up on me.
From Windyghoul to the top of the Roods it is a climb and then a steep descent.
The horse wasna touched; it came tearing down the Roods wi' the corpse sitting in the machine like a living man.
A detachment of the soldiers were marching down the Roods from the north.
She was the horse ('Lightning' they called her) that galloped round the ring at a mile an hour, and so at the top of the Roods she is still unmanageable.
I dinna like to prig wi' them to take a roundabout road, and I'm sair fleid a' the Roods will see me.
I was up the Roods on my rounds when I heard an awfu' din down in the square, and thinks I, there's rough characters about, and the place for honest folk is their bed.
Wearyworld hobbled after me up the Roods one day, pelting me with remarks, though I was doing my best to get away from him.
Amongst the magnificent roodsdestroyed about this time must be reckoned that at S.
Charges such as that made concerning the Rood at Boxley were, whether true or false, only too readily welcomed as an excuse for an attack on all roods at the Reformation.
Other famous roods were the "Rood of Winchester and the very cross at Ludlow," there was also a noted one at S.
A general destruction of roods took place in the autumn of 1547, when Heylin tells us "the image of Christ, best known by the name of the rood, together with the images of Mary and John, and all other images in the church of S.
Very rarely will anyone name a price for a rood and leave it to the other bargainer to decide which out of many roods shall be included in the sale.
If I hold two and a half acres in one place and three roods in a neighbouring place and you ask me how much land I have, I may tell you that I have two and a half acres and three roods.
It passed through the upper branches of the little oak, and fell to the ground three roods beyond.
He was very anxious to see how near the arrows would fall to the oak; but the nearest fell roods away, and he said to himself, "Now my father is completely justified, for not even Grettir could shoot so much farther than these men.
So they shot one after the other, and they shot equally, so far that all were pleased, and some ran to measure the distance, finding it three roods and more beyond Rolfs arrow.
Rolf knew Frodi spoke wisely, for that man must be found who could shoot threeroods farther than himself.
It is only," said Rolf, "that one of you here will shoot with the bow three roods farther than I.
It was utter madness to suppose that such a man, tender as a woman, timid as a sheep, gentle as a spaniel, could possibly have stabbed Tasso Tassilo to the death within a few roods of his own church, almost on holy ground itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
