| Walter Scott - 1877 - 594 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...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 486 ページ
...the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the fmest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...martial display which was intended, sloped gradually clown on all sides to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 692 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...which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if faehioped on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 674 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...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 574 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...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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...to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad. The... | |
| Coleman E. Bishop - 1883 - 384 ページ
...ranks hastened upon the appointed morning to the place of combat. The scene was singularly romantic. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial...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... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 280 ページ
...to within a mile of Ashby was an extensive meadow of the finest and most beautiful turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other...as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display, sloped gradually down to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 234 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. 3. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for... | |
| John Scott Clark - 1886 - 388 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...ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial dis play which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was enclosed... | |
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