How To Use Abbey In A Sentence

Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
Former Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, ordained Cate as a deacon at Romsey Abbey in 2001 and the curate was priested the following year.
As Abbey put her stained pinafore in the sink, she wondered what in the world could make her older sister so sweet on Shad one moment, and then on Zongala the next.
Then the king of England entered into the country of Beauvoisis, brenning and exiling the plain country, and lodged at a fair abbey and Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Abbey was snapped in a pair of skin-tight jeans just ten days after her daughter was born. The Sun

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In the times which we call barbarous, great benefices and abbeys were taxed in France to the third of their revenue. A Philosophical Dictionary
The town was kept going by a fine Abbey, whose last church still stands as one of the final triumphs of the Perpendicular style.
Love Downton Abbey: specifially ship Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes.
He cast a bell for the newly rebuilt abbey church.
The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.
They will need to be against an Abbeyside team being groomed for glory on the back of outstanding Under-21 and minor success.
All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage. St. Peter's Fair
The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct.
The hotel's location is perfect, not only is it a short walk from some of London's major tourist attractions, such as Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Kensington Palace, and the Londonist
She has been the Abbey's main organist since 1995. Colorado Retreat with a Chant Focus
Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
After his official welcome, both at the old abbey and the cathedral, he received the freedom of the city at the Town Hall.
Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
He died in comparative poverty, but was buried in Westminster Abbey, where Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset, paid for his handsome monument.
For some reason best known to whoever it was, a lifebuoy on Abbeyside strand was taken from its berthing and shamelessly burned.
Abbey freely indulged in two of the huge, gooey chocolate chip cookies.
The great church doors at the very end of the abbey were opened, and Evangelina Stiles was coming in on the hand of her father, the Stiles cigarette baron himself.
The Old Bell Hotel, a beautiful hostelry in the heart of the town near to the abbey, serves award-winning French cuisine.
Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.
Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
Early the next morning Benjamin attended mass in the abbey church then roused me.
Buck Abbey, a landscape professor at Louisiana State University, who has studied the effects of hurricane-force winds on plants, notes that the interknit canopy of a grove of trees tend to ride out high winds better than lone specimens -- especially if they're native varieties with wide, spreading branches, low centers of gravity, small leaves and deep root systems. Trees That Stand Up to Storms
More than two months ago I paid £800 in cash into my local branch of Abbey to be credited to my Abbey Visa card.
Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS. Teutonic Temptations
They come to see the abbey and the Abbey Gardens and to walk through the town centre which retains its ancient street patterns and round the river valleys with their millstreams and magnificent view of the abbey and the town walls.
Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey
Then he came to a white abbey.
In this, the national theatre's centenary year, this new production of the Abbey's signature play does not suffer in comparison with Garry Hynes's Druid staging last February.
Northamp. late belonging to Ramsay abbey, and the year following had grants of the manors of Rarnwel and Warketon, alias Warton, in the same county. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Towards the end of the twelfth century, stone from Caen was used for the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the mid-thirteenth century freestone from Caen was used for mouldings and carvings in Westminster Abbey.
But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by {81} day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest _chiaroscuro_. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
It seemed worthwhile sharing some photos taken by Vernon Quaintance from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which shows a recent Mass there in the modern form of the Roman liturgy, which was celebrated on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the monastic profession of the Very Rev. Dom Benedict Austen, OSB this past March 21st, 2009. St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
This sumptuous bauble, appropriately named the Tor Abbey Jewel, was doubtless made for a wealthy patron.
The lands of the abbey had shrunk, chipped away over the years by penurious owners. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The chronicles state that the abbey established a large farmstead - known as a grange - 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, and that a water mill was soon added.
He was proud to be listed as one of the Abbey's honorary life members. Times, Sunday Times
He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
St. Gildas, in the twelfth century, had Abelard for superior, who, on his appointment, made over to Eloise the celebrated abbey he had founded at Nogent, near Troyes, which he called the Paraclete or Comforter, because he there found comfort and refreshment after his troubles, but his peace soon ended on his arrival in Brittany. Brittany & Its Byways
The statute defines "a notour bankrupt" to be any debtor who, being under diligence by horning or caption, at the instance of his creditors, shall be either imprisoned, or retire to the abbey or any other privileged place, or flee or abscond for his personal security, or defend his person by force, and who shall afterwards be found, by sentence of the lords of session, to be insolvent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Abbey Road The London Souls' self-titled debut album builds on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
The Monsignor described the Abbey as a little corner of England which is irreclaimably French.
The school's indoor hurling and camogie teams competed very well in Abbeyfeale.
A few miles along the river, continue past the ruins of a twelfth century abbey, and over an old stone bridge.
Tombs of ecclesiastics (Obazine Abbey, Hereford Cathedral) were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy.
Scottish Mutual has grown substantially since it was acquired by Abbey National in 1992.
a kind of Chapter, to enter which it was necessary to give proof of four degrees of nobility The system of "commendam" proved injurious to the religious life of the abbey. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The screen and stall work brought from Easby Abbey are of great beauty, and the carvings on the subsellia are quaint and humorous.
The abbey is expecting to run up a deficit of £10,000 this financial year, according to the parochial church council.
The abbey appears to have been almost abolished shortly after the Reformation, the only parts of the monastic buildings allowed to remain being the fratery and portions of the chapter-house, which were incorporated with the mansion-house. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
He is a past pupil of Gortnor Abbey Convent and Anthony is now studying at GMIT Galway.
The queen was enthroned in an ancient abbey.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Edward Abbey
Those who wished to brew beer for their own household could use the abbey brewery - again upon a proportional payment.
And at the last he came to the abbey where Sir Galahad had the white shield, and there Sir Gawaine learned the way to sewe after Sir Galahad; and so he rode to the abbey where Melias lay sick, and there Sir Melias told Sir Gawaine of the marvellous adventures that Sir Galahad did. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Crenellated ornament occurs from the early fourteenth century onwards, as on the silver Ramsey Abbey censer of c.1325.
Jimmy Bergin from Abbeyleix took out his bicycle and cycled 28 miles to raise funds.
And then Santa arrived with his bag of Christmas gifts for everyone, courtesy of the Abbeyleix Goose Club draw.
Police carrying out house-to-house inquiries last week seized a number of items, including a replica gun, from the Abbeydale Road and Manor areas of the city.
I am now standing outside Iona Abbey (although the island is much smaller and flatter than I remember, seemingly bleached of some of its character and wild aspects).
British kings are crowned in Westminster Abbey.
The map shows the route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, where the couple are to marry April 29. Royal wedding procession route mapped
Abbey Notre-Dame d'Orval Villers-devant-Orval, Belgium www. orval.be La Trappe Monastery founded in 1881, brewing since 1884 A Tasting Tour of Trappist Brews
The richest and most beautiful specimen is the flabellum of the thirteenth century in the Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
There is definitley a school thought that the "stone of scone" that was blagged by eddie longshanks was simply a lump of local sandstone subsituted by the monks at scone Abbey, as they knew edward was coming to get it, as he reckoned that Robert the Bruce could not be crowned legaly or at least traditionaly without the "STONE "you have to bear in mind that to the monks, this stone was in fact "Jacobs Pillow " of biblical fame. Filmstalker: Stone of Destiny theft gets filmed
The Abbey bell tolled for those killed in the war.
Archaeologists digging at the ruins of a 12th-century abbey have unearthed a medieval poker chip. Times, Sunday Times
The abbey church is a magnificent example of these domed churches; it is 275 feet long.
Hill -- was Fonthill Abbey, near Salisbury, that prodigious folly to which A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season.
We proceed to Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and The Houses of Parliament.
The steep asphalt path at the west end of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey made a splendid toboggan slide, and the invigorating pastime was thoroughly enjoyed.
The fundraiser received a lot of support from the local traders in Abbeyleix who contributed a wide variety of prizes, which were raffled on the night.
It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey.
The meeting of Abbeyside and Shamrocks is equally difficult to call, although Shamrocks will go into the game in buoyant mood following their impressive victory over Dungarvan last time out.
The morrow following, some of the poor in hope of spoil, and some of Dundee to consider what was done, passed up to the said Abbey of Scone; whereat the Bishop's servants offended began to threaten and speak proudly, and as it was constantly affirmed one of the Bishop's sons stogged through with a rapier one of Dundee because he was looking in at the girnel door. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey
The tiny Chapel of St Mary Magdalen was established for lepers and blind priests in the early 12th century by Thurstan, the Archbishop of York who founded Fountains Abbey.
There were signs of an assault in the damaged wooden palisade, but the abbey itself appeared unharmed.
Nortbamp. late belonging to Ramsay abbey, and the year following had grants of the manors of Barnwel and Warketon, alias Warton, in the same county. Peerage of England. ...
Abbey - as the bank is now known - was the first building society to demutualise in 1989, giving away shares to customers valued at the time at 130p.
In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb.
Near adjoining to this abbey, on the south side thereof, was some time a farm belonging to the said nunnery, at which farm I myself, in my youth, have fetched many a halfpennyworth of milk.
A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement.
Start-of-season trout fishermen cast their flies across the crystal water as I strode past, hungry for the good nosh at the Abbey Tearooms.
Iona, and its subordinate abbeys, accepted the Roman Church early in the eighth century, but the Scottish Church did not conform entirely.
They immediately contacted the Abbey's financial adviser at their local branch and asked three basic questions. 1.
As an entr'acte, if you will, to our series about Catholic Bamberg - which will definitely be continued - today we visit another treasure of Catholic Germany closer to my home Berlin, which I visited last Sunday: the former Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle ( "New Cell") in the state of Brandenburg. Neuzelle Abbey
Eleven days ago, the second largest lender, the Abbey National, stopped selling mortgage protection insurance to its existing borrowers.
At his death both the house and the gatehouse were bought for the Abbey.
The Mayo Abbey and Brize region has lost a kindly gentleman with the passing of Sonny Gibbons.
To the Abbey not a groatsworth of damage will I do. The Lay of the Cid
Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
Hoping to make peace and begin to overcome his loss, he is saddened to see the bodachs, gruesome black shades who feed on death, begin to show up on the abbey grounds and lurk over the children.
Two people were injured and a third left in shock yesterday after an axeman ran amok before launching a frenzied attack inside a historic abbey.
A few computer magazines, some cash I pinched from Quigley's drawer and my Abbey National card.
They were fawned over at Westminster Abbey, greeted warmly at No. 10 Downing St. and, finally, lauded at the first state dinner thrown here for a U.S. president in eight years. Obamas get royal treatment in Britain
But Strictly contestant Abbey snubbed the chance to show off her dancing skills. The Sun
Joined the Abbey board in 1999 and is chairman of the theatre's centenary fundraising committee.
But the most sublime and beautiful picture was to come, of a wooded valley funnelling down to a strip of green grass flood-plain and on this the River Rye meandering to the abbey.
If the prioress is the first superior, her authority over the convent is similar to that of a conventual prior over his priory; if the first superior is an abbess, the office of the prioress is similar to that of a claustral prior in an abbey. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which any one held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fief claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things. The Magna Carta
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In this image, the photographer combined two famous London features: a London taxicab and Westminster Abbey.
There was a dame's school in their little village of Fonthill Abbey, but the poverty of the family would have made it impossible for Joan to attend had it not been for an unselfish person residing there, a Mr. King, who was anxious that every child should be taught its letters. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
St. Augustine in the north porch of St. Peter's Abbey church, afterwards known as St. Augustine's. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The places chosen for these unorthodox interments were often sites of ancient churches or graveyards, or of ruined abbeys etc.
Fifty years to the day when she was crowned Queen in the historic Abbey - scene of coronations for 900 years - she will retrace her steps.
Stupified as I was, some instinct must have told me not to refuse Gallantin's invitation a second time-it's a good rule, as I hope I've demonstrated, that when scalp-hunters offer you a squaw, you should take her away quick and quiet, and if you don't fancy her, then teach her the two times table, or "Tintern Abbey", or how to tie a sheepshank. Isabelle
“Freedom” is a big-sounding word but I did not say this to Abbey. Eliza’s Freedom Road
Eleven days ago, the second largest lender, the Abbey National, stopped selling mortgage protection insurance to its existing borrowers.
Quinlan invited the Benedictines from St. Vincent's Abbey, Pa., to the dioc ese, and they settled at Cullman. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Mark wondered why so fastidious a medievalist allowed the Order of St. George to erect those three tin tabernacles and to matchboard the interior of the Abbey. The Altar Steps
As the organist plays the Prelude and Fugue in E Flat by Bach, the bells of the Abbey will be rung half-muffled to a peal of Stedman Caters, comprising 5101 changes.
But actually across the country there is lots and lots of good work going on in local churches and cathedrals and places such as the abbey. Times, Sunday Times
Using dams and pressurised water, the ambitious project aims to 'refloat' the abbey within two years. Times, Sunday Times
Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution. Ulysses
The recent one day trip to Ballintubber Abbey and Church Island by a group from the parish was blessed with favourable weather.
Several large abbey churches survive, mainly built in brick, and all carefully restored.
Inside the Abbey, we saw the crest of the Maunsell family and over the choir pews, a very impressive hatchment mounted on the wall
And the grandness of D ownton Abbey is extreme, even by the standards of "Masterpiece Theatre" opulence — it is lushness unlimited, inside and out. Pride and Privilege
The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life.
Abbey at full stretch remains a great writer and he'll stay in the pantheon for all time.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey
Veronica took Abbey's hair out of the bun and started spritzing it with water.
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
An ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey in commendam, that is, who draws its revenues and, if an ecclesiastic, may also have some jurisdiction, but does not exercise any authority over its inner monastic discipline. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The monasteries and abbeys were the basis of church life.
From Dinbych, Llewelyn moved south into Powys, and then on to the Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida. HERE BE DRAGONS
Aspiring student designers wowed the audience with their creations at a spectacular fashion show in Selby Abbey.
Abbey and Josh drank their milkshakes together in the window-filled breakfast nook.
Several large abbey churches survive, mainly built in brick, and all carefully restored.
Although a railway line from Bolton Abbey to the village would be a long-term plan requiring many millions of pounds of investment, hope is high on the agenda.
Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering ￡200 towards legal fees on completion.
Included in the sale is an adjoining site at 1 Abbeylane, with lapsed planning permission for a detached four-bedroom residence.
The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
Carne had parchments in Latin, seals in wax, and Lammas Land behind the Abbey. A Murder of Quality
But he maintains: ‘Of all the banks, Abbey National has been most successful at bancassurance.’
The abbey and college are also Ryedale's second largest employer and trustees are asking planners to consider the benefits to the local economy.
The great "lion" of this district was the famous and extraordinary Fonthill Abbey, an amazing erection in sham Gothic, built by Wyatt, that "infamous dispoiler, misnamed architect" to the order of the eccentric author of Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
It is based in the old abbey church and still has all the panelling, stained glass and a pulpit. Times, Sunday Times
For some years it was left a roofless ruin, and a building designed for the parish church was afterwards erected within the nave, roofed over at the level of the triforium, and used as a place of worship till 1875, when a new church built in excambion by the Earl of Lothian was opened for worship, and the abbey ruin can now be viewed "clear of that incubus upon its lovely proportions. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
Worth visiting amongst a plethora of architectural gems are the palace, the tollbooth and the abbey but most enjoyable of all, are the little houses, randomly set against each other in an untidy straggle up the winding lanes.
He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
Within 15 miles you can visit numerous abbeys, castles, historic houses and craft centres.
Fighting, rowdyism and general mayhem erupted on the quiet main street of Abbeyleix on Sunday last.
We came fourth in Ballymoney, third in Portadown, last night was Newtownabbey, in the lovely and intimate Ballyearl Theatre, where slimmeroftheyea who is not at all well atthe moment and really rather down and I did improv comedy many years ago. God Save BBC4
Today, the picture was bleak, with visitors bypassing the town and its ‘architectural gem’ Selby Abbey.
Landscape, pasture, workplaces and cemetery are all incorporated and can be experienced from the abbey garden.
IT'S a real coup for Downton Abbey to persuade the most famous man in the world to take a cameo role. The Sun
The archaeological consultant also curates the abbey collection of many loose carved stones and other historic artefacts and a few of the best of these are currently exhibited in showcases in the church ambulatory.
He stopped as a picture of Abbey flashed onto the screen of a news network.
His bank, Abbey National, wrote to The Sunday Times charging that "someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception," according to the BBC. Phone Hacking Scandal Widens: News International Targeted Gordon Brown, BSkyB Bid Delayed (LIVE UPDATES)
He was also a pupil and then housemaster at the Roman Catholic boys' school attached to the abbey and run by the Benedictines.
The enfeoffment of abbeys differed in form and degree.
They were married in the abbey and his wife added fresh impetus to his ministry. Times, Sunday Times
Abbey, a cross engrailed, and showing the head of a crosier above the shield in the centre. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
Purcell was appointed "copyist" of Westminster Abbey, whatever post that may have been. Purcell
Heroes who have won the highest honours for their bravery now have a permanent memorial at Westminster Abbey.
Her set and costume design are her usual high standard, though the scenes in the abbey seem a little pinched on the apron of the stage.
Dowden, in his introduction to the Lindores chartulary, gives details of these endowments, as well as of the privileges granted to the abbey by successive popes: these do not seem to have differed from those enjoyed by other great monasteries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Dr Hope will read the first lesson from Ecclesiastes 12: 1-7 and the Abbey Choir will sing Psalm 121.
About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them.
The Lords and ladies would be put up at the Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey before the pheasant and grouse shoots.
‘Dearly Beloved’, the elderly minister started, his voice loud and booming across the abbey with the mike.
Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.
Georgina, a nine-year-old bull mastiff, squeezed through the doors of Abbeydale Vets, Preston New Road, Blackburn, in February after the owners became concerned about her weight.
Siluanus the abbat married them, vnto whom the very same day, king Godred gaue a portion of ground in Mirescoge, where he built a Monastery: howbeit, in processe of time, the said land with the monkes, was granted vnto the abbey of Russin. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The main visible evidence of the abbey is a vaulted undercroft below the Great Hall.
The British pavilion is an impressive steel and glass construction the size of Westminster Abbey.
The king's tremendous support of the abbey of Cluny is discussed thoroughly, as is his foundation and endowment of the Cluniac abbey at Reading.
Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
This volume of gonzo musings completes the “accidental trilogy” begun in Blood Orchid and continued in Blues for Cannibals, offering more scorched-earth prophesying by the hard-bitten Bowden, a journalistic iconoclast in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey, and James Agee. Cover to Cover
Banada Abbey is surrounded by approximately 53 acres, 24 of which are covered with a combination of spruce and pine forestry, with 12 acres decorated with various broadleaf varieties.
Abbey showered and instead of blow-drying her hair, which would be washed and dried and totally restyled by her hair assistant, she pulled it up into a messy bun.
At her bidding, yesterday's service at Westminster Abbey was set around Faure's Requiem.
The nubile young lead, Adela, is played with convincing adolescent frustration by Isabel Claffey in her Abbey debut.
George was heard vociferating, 3 “What the deevil, Mrs. Grimslees, the Captain is no in his bed? and a gentleman at our house has ordered a fowl and minced collops, and a bottle of sherry, and has sent to ask him to supper, to tell him all about the Abbey.” The Monastery
Lorraine is a Donegal lady and a student nurse at Moore Abbey and has entered her final year.
Stanbrook, which also has 120 lay people, or oblates, is well-known for having Britain's oldest private printing press, the Abbey Press, established in 1876.
By the end of the Middle Ages, churches such as Westminster Abbey or S. Denis were full of important tombs, and repositioning these monuments became necessary in order to accommodate yet more.
His writings state the abbey founded a large farmstead, or grange, and a water mill 20 miles away.
Some buildings charge admission but the ruins of the abbey, next to the parish church, are free.
The big event on Saturday is the election of the new chieftain and clan banquet in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel.
Announcing his retirement at this week's Christmas concert at Selby Abbey, he went out not with a whimper but a bang, and a departing salvo aimed at New Labour.
His removal from Drohan's Funeral Home to Abbeyside Parish Church on Tuesday evening was accompanied by a large concourse of family and friends.
In the second phase, which has not even been costed yet, an attempt would be make to make the art gallery, city library and King's Manor more a part of the St Mary's Abbey precinct.
I was in the service of the prior of Hyde Abbey, a lay clerk, when this mortal sickness came on me, and I took this vow of mine to spend my remaining days in the canonry of Aberdaron. The Pilgrim of Hate
Our cathedrals and abbeys are better looked after than ever.

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