"Parkinson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Esquire, of Gray's Inn. In 1659 it was sold to one Duncombe, of whom it was purchased in 1688 by Sir Edmund Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, Knight; in whose family it still continues. Other proprietors are Richard Ward, Esq., and Dr. Parkinson. ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter
... PARKINSON will now probably admit that the foolish process known as "breaking a butterfly on a wheel" may ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. July 4, 1891 • Various
... a Critical Study of her Life and Writings. Essays: by J. Jacobs, in Literary Studies; by H. James, in Partial Portraits; by Dowden, in Studies in Literature; by Hutton, Harrison, Brownell, Lilly (see above). See also Parkinson's Scenes from the George ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... and it is eaten in the raw state; a small variety of yam, more commonly known by the name of the Rotuma potato, the ule of the natives, is very abundant; the ulu or bread-fruit, pori or plantain and the vi, (spondias dulcis, Parkinson,) or, Brazilian plum, with numerous other kinds, sufficiently testify the fertility of the island. Occasionally the mournful toa or casuarina equisetifolia, planted in small clumps near the villages or surrounding the burial-places, added ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 579 - Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 • Various
... Hopkicke, Dorothie Parkinson, William Robertts, John Farrar, Martin Cuffe, Thomas Hall, Thomas Smith, Christo. Robertts, Thomas Browne, Henry Fearne, Thomas Parkins, Mr. Hussy, James Collis, Raph Rockley, William Geales, George Jones, Andrew Allinson, William Downes, ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various
... a foreign shore, I am not yet, it seems, to be left entirely alone to the tender mercies of my own lamentable inability to speak French. Fortunately there lives at Dieppe a gentleman named Mr. Parkinson, who, besides being an Englishman to the backbone, is quite an enthusiastic wheelman, and, among other things, considers it his solemn duty to take charge of visiting 'cyclers from England and America ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens |
