In every manor there was held annually the assize of bread and ale, the two staple articles of diet which it was essential should be pure and of good quality.
Staple Inn, in Holborn, was an inn for merchants of the Staple before it became a resort for the lawyers.
In the end the merchants of the Staple grew into a ring of powerful monopolists, who controlled prices, regulated times of sale, and even secured the carrying trade in their own hands.
The sale of wool at the Staple dwindled away, while Yorkshire tweeds and Cotswold broadcloths were winning the preference for price and quality in the most distant markets.
I am quite prepared to admit that a very small tax on staple articles would affect prices in a very small manner.
Cheese naturally suggests itself as a substitute for meat, since it is rich in the same kinds of nutrients that meat supplies, is a staple food with which every one is familiar and is one which can be used in a great variety of ways.
Cheese is used as a staple source of food values among many peoples of Europe.
These varieties of cheese are staple products with long marketable periods; therefore they may be handled in large lots, shipped, carted and stored freely without the losses such treatment would entail in soft cheese.
The gun swung well back, and coming against the door like a Roman battering-ram, carried away the staple of the lock.
Are not these fine commodities To be imported from the skies, And vended here among the rabble, For staple goods and warrantable?
And whence came the wild and even foul ideas which formed the staple of their delirious narratives?
He had been chained to the floor by heavy irons, which were rivetted into a staple fixed in the ground.
The development of the magnificent elevator system, based upon the principle that the cereals can be handled like water, greatly simplifies the holding and preservation of these staple products.
The year books of the United States Department of Agriculture contain the annual estimate of the yields, and the average December farm price of staple crops by states.
They form a fairly sound basis for calculating the gross income which may be expected from the staple farm crops, particularly for the cereals, potatoes, hay, cotton and tobacco.
A definite money rent may be paid, ranging from $2 to $6 an acre for land on which the ordinary, staple crops are raised.
Cotton, the only other great staple crop, has increased four times in the same period.
They were not prepared to say that Wimp's theory was impossible; they would even admit it was quite possible that the staple of the bolt had been torn off beforehand.
We have seen the splintered mortice and the staple of the upper bolt violently forced from the woodwork and resting on the pin.
And he was certain that the staple of the bolt was not broken, from the resistance he experienced in trying to shake the upper panels of the door.
A person bursting open the door and finding the stapleresting on the pin and torn away from the lintel of the door, would, of course, imagine he had torn it away, never dreaming the wresting off had been done beforehand.
To cause a locked door to appear bolted in addition, it would only be necessary for the person on the inside of the door to wrest the staple containing the bolt from the woodwork.
When the staple was torn off, it would simply remain at rest on the pin of the bolt instead of supporting it or keeping it fixed.
Haberdyne" (or dried salt cod) seems to have been a favorite and staple article of diet aboard ship.
See the note prefixed to Staple of News, Act 3, and the second Prologue for The Silent Woman.
The Staple of News was first printed at the same time as the present play, and in the beginning of Act IV.
Two of Pecunia’s attendants in The Staple of News are Statute and Band (i.
Covetousness appears in Robin Conscience, c 1530, and is applied to one of the characters in The Staple of News, Wks.
Ten in the hundred’ was the customary rate at this period (see Staple of News, Wks.
He treats the same subject with biting satire in The Staple of News.
Pecunia in theStaple of News is called the ‘Infanta of the mines.
Statutes merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of a statute staplewere acknowledgements of debt made in writing before officers appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of record.
In The Stapleof News Mirth relates her reminiscences of the old comedy.
The Staple of News, by Ben Jonson, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary.
In theStaple of News the Lady Pecunia is provided with a gentleman-usher.
In these pages, however, we propose to notice only that article which is the most profitable, and undoubtedly forms the chief staple of import in all the harbours opened to foreign commerce, viz.
The Gilt Toy and Mock Jewellery Trade, once one of the staple employments of Birmingham artizans, has dwindled away until it now occupies a very insignificant place in the Directory.
Some time afterwards the woollen manufacturers thought themselves likely to be ruined by the introduction of cotton cloth, "to the ruin of the staple trade of the kingdom," and succeeded in placing an excise duty upon the new fabric.
The dependence on the United States for such a staple has begun to render our Manchester men uncomfortable.
Our task will be confined on the present occasion to a sketch of Huddersfield and Leeds, centres of the woollen manufacture, which forms the third great staple of English manufactures, and of Sheffield, famed for keen blades.
Shoe and knee buckles, which were once universally worn, alone employed five thousand persons in their manufacture, when it was the staple trade of the town.
It was presumed that the baths were the subject of the entertaining conversation; for I read in a charming little work which sets forth the delights of Leuk, that La poussee forms the staple of most of the talk.
The main staple for the present would be fish, and he shows how Holland has become powerful by her fisheries and the training of hardy sailors.
The rainbow and the Lochleven trout will be the staple importation; but in some of the larger streams experiments might be made with the American ouananiche and the Danubian huchen.
The mines are her staple industry, but the mines, so far as she is concerned, are an industry and not a speculation; and she is creating a dozen other industries of quite a different character, and may well create a hundred more.
Fouque had had plans of marriage, and unhappy love affairs, and long confidences on this subject had formed thestaple of the two friends' conversation.
The governing policy of a household, though it forms the staple of conversation in bourgeois families, is only alluded to in families of the class of that of the marquis in moments of distress.
Instead of attempting to live on birds, he hustled for the staplefood products that the soil of his own farm could produce.
Even under ordinary conditions grasshoppers are a staple food of many members of the shorebird family, and the following species are known to feed on them: Northern phalarope (Lobipes lobatus).
The staple export trade is in fish and their products: other exports are butter, copper ore and hides.
About 150 boats are employed in the fisheries, and herrings form the staple of an active trade.
The staple crop is barley, but wheat, lentils, vetches, flax and gourds are also cultivated.
Burmese teak had long been a staple product of great value; its care and development were the main duties of forest officers.
Rice was scarce, and edible roots formed the staple fare of the peasantry.
A province of this kingdom, called Great Permia, and since Solikam, was the staple for the merchandizes of Persia, and the furs of Tartary.
The south part of Russia was before the time of Tamerlane, the staple of Greece, and even of the Indies; and the Genoese were the principal factors.
Opium is one of the staple products of this rich province, and one of the chief sources of wealth of this flourishing city.
The trade in tea, its staple export, is declining rapidly, particularly since 1886.
Rice was mystaple article of diet; eggs, fowls, and vegetables were also abundant and cheap; but I avoided pork which is the flesh universally eaten throughout China by all but the Mohammedans and vegetarians.
The day will come probably, but does not seem to be hastening very fast, when we shall conclude to make our own linens, as we have within a comparatively few years past determined in regard to all the staple varieties of carpets.
It is the most common crop throughout South Africa, where it is known as mealies, being the staple food of the natives.
Behind their villages the rice-fields usually spread, and rice, which is the staple food of the people, is the principal article of agriculture among them.
Rice is the staple product, and considerable quantities are exported.
The staple crop is rice, the next most important product being coco-nuts.
But to follow the processes by which those results are reached, ought, say the friends of physical science, to be made the staple of education for the bulk of mankind.
The hermits who came to dwell in Sinai, settled in the mountains of the south where many natural springs rendered possible the cultivation of vegetables and fruit, their staple articles of diet.
