 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1917 - 452 ページ
...green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground,...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1917 - 440 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1917 - 394 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 676 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 518 ページ
...a wood near Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 ページ
...immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was in- so tended, sloped gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 602 ページ
...straggling oak trees, some of which 44. real, a Spanish cola, at normal exchange worth about five cents. had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was in- so tended, sloped gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2004 - 466 ページ
...immense confluence of persons of all ranks hastened upon the appointed moming to the place of combat on purpose for the martial display which was intended,...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
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The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by... 
