The third prize was to be two tuns of good Rhenish wine.
It was (he says) nothing less than a miracle that one who had so recently demanded a present of precious stones and 100 tuns of wine, as the price of his favour, should now appear so complacent.
His Majesty is prayed to accord them the exemption of duty on three tuns of eau de vie and six tuns of wine.
In four months from the time the 'Thistle' left Launceston she had on board two hundred and forty tuns of oil.
He started out next morning, choosing the boat which had picked up McCann at Western Port, and killed one whale, which turned out six tuns of oil.
When the 'Thistle' arrived at Portland Bay every other party had got nearly one hundred tuns of oil each, and Mills' party had none.
In those days the hundreds were not all of the same size, because, owing to the nature of the soil, some tuns were far apart from one another, and a tything might cover a wide district, and a hundred a much larger area.
The tuns or vills of the bishopric of Winchester, for instance, were scattered about in various parts of the diocese.
In time ten free families or tuns joined together for protection, formed a tything.
Gradually the name tything was given to the district, though many more tuns had grown up upon it.
From being a combination of families, or tuns, the tything got to be a =district=; and it kept its name of tything long after the number of tuns in it had increased.
Along with the growth of churches in the tuns and vills was the founding of =monasteries=.
In much the same way, when the boundaries of a tything or hundred were invaded by another tything or hundred, the differences between the tuns would be dropped, in order to preserve the rights which they had in common.
If the hundred was small, that would show that the tuns were pretty close together, and that the district was populous.
A very large number of vills and tunswere under the lordship of the various bishops and monasteries.
In the open places of the tunsand vills, where the folk-moots were held, Christianity was preached and the cross set up.
We do not know the causes which led certain of these agricultural tuns to become trading-places; but it is quite certain that they did gradually grow to be what we now call =towns=.
Their rights over their vills and tuns were much the same in each case, and their duties to those vills and tuns were also similar.
However, this was not done in the present case, and since no tuns are recorded, we may conclude that none were involved, and G6-G7 may be written 1.
So far as the writer knows, the existence of a period containing 5 tuns has not been suggested heretofore.
The student will note that this Initial Series records a date just 5 tuns later than the Initial Series on Stela B at Copan (pl.
It is clear, therefore, that 5 tunsare recorded in B2.
Indeed, the only difference between the two is that the former has 13 tuns while the latter has only 12.
Batten offering to go to the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, where the pretty maid the daughter of the house is; I was saying that, that tickled Sir W.
So back to the 3 Tunsat Charing Cross, and there met the two Sir Williams and Col.
I had only time to tell my wife that Burguet would defend the deserter, and then went down into the cellar to fill the two tuns at the counter, which were already empty.
T is drinking at the Tunsthat keeps us from ascending Buttery barrels,' &c.
But let us, for joy that I'm escaped, go to the Three Tuns and drink a pint of wine, and laugh away our cares.
However, my intention was to take Mr. Parkinson to the Three Tuns to-night, and see what could be done.
I gathered from Blooming Bess that the three of them were to remain at the Three Tuns to-night, and were all to go away together to some place or other; but where she did not know.
The imports of rape oil, from Brassica napus, into Liverpool, are about 15 to 20 tuns annually.
Eighty to 90 tuns of the expressed oil are now annually imported.
About 80 tuns of almond oil are annually imported into this country, the price being about 1s.
He called the vaults his realm, the tuns his dearly loved subjects—for, as the peasant gazed, he saw a long procession oftuns stretching away into the darkness.
He shouted with mad delight at the sight, he clapped his hands and smacked his lips in anticipation, he declared the tuns glittered like pure gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
