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  • Then the Archbishop of Canterbury stepped forward, mitre and all, and called us, in sonorous tones, to prayer. ANTI-ICE
  • I strongly recommend that you go there, either on foot or by car as the view from there gives a panorama of Canterbury mountains.
  • His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
  • They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
  • The arch-bishop himself, Æthelnoth, came from Canterbury to witness our troth; I could scarce raise my eyes to him, knowing as he must every blemish of my soul.
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  • We have no restrictions on where residents or their family members can dine," said Daniel Nimon, vice president at Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, in nearby Virginia Beach, which is also near capacity. NYT > Home Page
  • The former Archbishop of Canterbury hit out yesterday at extreme atheists who are intolerant of religious views and attempt to deny Christians a voice in public debate.
  • The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
  • Janet Canterbury was in Washington that week, and Ellie called both of us into her office to break the news personally.
  • Children look for the Little People in mauve flowers – Canterbury bells and hyacinths – and, though they never find them, they know them there. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • In June 1162 Becket was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
  • The pilgrims from Evesham arrived in Canterbury on Tuesday and visited the shrine late on Wednesday morning. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Buskins are presumed by Strutt to have resembled "the shoes of the carpenter's wife in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," which the poet says 'were laced high upon her legs'.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Misjudging the survival of Romano-British life, Gregory had planned archbishoprics based on London and York, but political realities were acknowledged in 601 when Augustine was enthroned as first archbishop of Canterbury.
  • At first glance, one might expect a study of the deposition books of the consistory court of the diocese of Canterbury and the marriage-related provisions of wills from five sample parishes to be essentially a work of consolidation.
  • Not a person you'd accuse of indecision, she grew up in Mayfield and when she came to Christchurch in 1955 flatted at the YWCA hostel with another Mid-Canterbury girl destined to achieve in sport - Val Young.
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Bourchier, apparently had charge of the boys for a time, but Richard was later entrusted to the Earl of Warwick, whose lavish household was said to support 20,000 retainers.
  • Remains from Roman Canterbury have also come to light, including walls standing two feet high, metalled roads, a number of tessellated floors, and a hoard of about 700 low-denomination coins spanning the 1st - 4th centuries.
  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
  • In ecclesiastical affairs, the see of Canterbury claimed a comparable hegemony.
  • We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic.
  • They were entering the outskirts of Canterbury, threading their way through the ancient streets. A SEASON IN HELL
  • Bishop Packer will act as chief consecrator on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of the province.
  • Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity, it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.
  • The proceedings of the convocation of Canterbury were conducted in English quite often by the 1370s, and Henry IV spoke to Parliament in English in 1399 and had his words carefully recorded.
  • Cook and then move on across the Canterbury Plains for an overnight on a local farm.
  • Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury holds the highest position in the Church of England.
  • Italian-born missionary and prelate who introduced Christianity to southern Britain and in 598 was ordained as the first archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Dryden; but the fact is, _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection, and the tale in question _not being in that collection_, I proceeded to supply it, having never till very lately, strange as it may seem, _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
  • A game excellent I must get playing, our games shop has changed hands in canterbury...promising more historical figures and wargames evenings ... A Sudan Wargame!
  • Seven hundred years later ' The Canterbury Tales' is still considered one of the greatest English literary masterpieces.
  • The first abbot of Dunfermline was Geoffrey, prior of Canterbury, while David I's Cistercian foundation at Melrose was established by monks from Rievaulx.
  • In 2007, New Scientist noted that a theory by John Abrahamson and James Dinniss of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, suggesting ball lightning could form when lightning strikes soil, vaporizing any silica in it, had been supported by experimental work in Brazil. Ball lightning
  • A weaver to Canterbury his way did wend, And to Heaven his soul I did send. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • A summoner to Canterbury his way did trot, And now in Hell his soul will rot. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Canterbury workmates Brian Thomson and Allan Gemmell have won the two blade-shearing places in Shearing Sports New Zealand's team for the 14th Golden Shears World Championships in Wales this year after a dramatic last round of their qualifying series today at the Oxford A and P Show, west of Christchurch. NZ On Screen
  • A weaver to Canterbury his way did wend, And to Heaven his soul I did send. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • The Canterbury Tales bear eloquent witness to the fact that for centuries Becket's tomb in the cathedral was the greatest pilgrimage shrine in England.
  • The first woman bishop may be consecrated before 2010, opening the way eventually to the appointment of a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, which establishes English as a literary language and paves the way for Shakespeare. The English Is Coming!
  • Canterbury should have consented and also have crowned him, wherefore S. Thomas gat a bull for to do accurse them that so did against him, and also on them that occupied the goods longing to him. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
  • Canterbury Choral Society is one of those substantial choruses in Britain that can tackle the biggest works in the repertory with absolute confidence.
  • The ancient privilege of coining money at Canterbury was restored to him and his successors by Richard I, and he was a great benefactor to his cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Incidentally, the OED has the entry form galingale used by Chaucer in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones/ To boille the chiknes with the Marybones/ And poudre Marchant tart and galyngale" and gives the following impressive variety of forms: Languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL.
  • As justiciar, archbishop of Canterbury, and papal legate Hubert Walter stood for harmonious co-operation between king and Church.
  • Moreover, I work at Canterbury Uni and went to Rangi Ruru, and ... well, I was a daygirl there, and Mansfield seems to be in a slightly more Villa Maria direction geographically, but still, you know? Land Of My Bones.
  • He was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Vitalius in 668.
  • Their studio was a cowshed (later replaced by a row of converted pigsties) on Firmin's farm near Canterbury, in Kent. Goodbye, Oliver Postgate
  • • We do appear to have set the cat among the pigeons with recent revelations that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, barred Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the US church, and the first woman to lead an Anglican province, from wearing her mitre or carrying her bishop's crosier during a sermon at Southwark Cathedral. Diary
  • He could well claim three legs of the Canterbury quadrella as they have him booked for Number One Gun in the final event.
  • The most he would order was a formal inquiry, asking his son to bring together ‘the senior and more important knights of the honour of Saltwood’ to determine what should belong to the archbishopric of Canterbury.
  • He began to practise physic four years after coming from Canterbury to London, out of necessity, especially by making pills and electuaries, particularly mithridate and London treacle.
  • The conventional view, then as now, was that Lanfranc had carried all before him in asserting the rights of Canterbury.
  • Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.
  • In 1093 Anselm was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • The Southern rata, although rare in Canterbury, is present in this reserve.
  • An example in the Canterbury Museum, so immature that the tail-feathers are only two inches long, has more fulvous in the plumage and no indication whatever of a superciliary streak.
  • And these four knights aforesaid came to Canterbury on the Tuesday in Christmas week about Evensong time, and came to S. Thomas and said that the king commanded him to make amends for the wrongs that he had done, and also that he should assoil all them that he had accursed anon, or else they should slay him. 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
  • Stoddart first settled on the Terrace Station on the Rakaia River in Canterbury where the homestead sited below the top of the terrace was said to be one of the windiest places in Canterbury.
  • In mid 1997 the Canterbury team was discontinued by the company as economically nonviable.
  • The abbots of Jumièges took part in all the great affairs of the Church and nation; one of them, Robert, became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1040; many others became bishops in France, and some were also raised to the cardinalitial dignity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
  • Donations by pious laymen doubtless continued, and Glastonbury and Canterbury not only survived, but did so as wealthy churches.
  • Australian shagroons and "Canterbury pilgrims" alike responded to the opportunity.
  • The outcome of this initiative was probably the foundation of a Canterbury priory at Dunfermline, the first ‘regular’ Benedictine house in the Scottish kingdom.
  • We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic.
  • Canterbury Cathedral is open to visitors Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm; Sundays 12.30-4.30pm; admission £6.50 01227 762 862; www.canterbury-cathedral.org . Archive 2007-11-01
  • Then you can pour a second cup quite soon after you’ve finished the first, and it’ll be a half-decent cuppa. hats for weddings in canterbury - I also feel strongly about this. And now… your searches « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • We know that the decennial Lambeth Conference, which takes its name from the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence, can no longer fit in the palace and so meets at the University of Kent.
  • England's prime gaiter-wearer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had his reservations about the apparel.
  • He denied assisting unlawful entry into the UK but was convicted at Canterbury crown court. The Sun
  • The tomb's freestone canopy is equally remarkable and can be compared with that of Stratford at Canterbury.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Planted along with traditional peonies, irises and chrysanthemums, are lupines, veronicas and Canterbury bells, a contemporary feature rarely seen in Japanese gardens.
  • At the beginning of 1531 the Convocation of Canterbury were informed that they could purchase a pardon for the praemunire they had incurred by presenting the king with the enormous sum of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public. The Men Who Made England
  • Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • For though a baptizer and an anointer bestow authority—in much the same way as the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred the regal status on Queen Elizabeth II in 1953—they themselves must have had authority to do so. The Templar Revelation
  • 25D: Burrow: rabbit:: holt: _____ (otter) - I know "holt" only from the opening of "Canterbury Tales," but I don't remember OTTERs being involved. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
  • 'There are a number of doctors in Canterbury and three apothecaries ," Newington answered. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Canterbury be diminished or changed, in present or _future times_, which was appointed by our predecessor Pope Gregory, _however human circumstances may be changed_: but more especially by the authority of Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Then all that remained was to persuade the archbishop of Canterbury to anoint him.
  • Not a bolt nor a fishplate had been forgotten, and moreover John Castellan's operations from the air had reduced the destruction to a minimum, and the consequence was that twelve hours after the Kaiser had landed at Dover he found himself in his headquarters at Canterbury, whence the British garrison had been forced to retire after heavy fighting along the lines of wooded hills behind The World Peril of 1910
  • The perpetually fuzzle-headed Archdruid of Canterbury quite agrees with the bishop's sentiments and endorsed the Right Reverend's book postulating these ideas. Slice of Laodicea
  • Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
  • When the University of Canterbury moved from its town site to Ilam, west of the city, the site was farmland with the homestead on it known as Okeover.
  • Unsurprisingly, the best comparisons are with manuscript illuminations produced in the Winchester and Canterbury workshops, such as the famous Trinity Gospels in Cambridge, which were probably made in about 1020.
  • Theobald was a brother of Hubert Walter, the future archbishop of Canterbury and justiciar and chancellor of England.
  • In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses the Wheel of Fortune to describe the tragic fall of several historical figures in his Monk’s Tale.
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums, with foxgloves and delphiniums in the upper garden zones.
  • Some of Churchill's nominations in fact were very good, that of Temple to Canterbury being the best.
  • But he exerted all his powers to bring Thomas to submit to Canterbury's primatial authority.
  • Behind the decrepit beadsmen came a long array of Canterbury canons, chaplains and dignitaries in all their robes, followed by pages carrying the maces of Canterbury and York and the cross of Canterbury.
  • They have studied the names of the doctors and apothecaries in Canterbury and have drawn up a list of those they think could be suspects. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • After a little more rubbernecking I took Ed to Canterbury Catherdral.
  • He had passed swiftly through Cambridge and Oxford to become a leading Anglican theologian and had risen equally swiftly from a small bishopric in Wales to the seat of Canterbury. The Velvet Reformation
  • Winchester the original piers were either clothed with new ashlaring, or the old ashlaring was wrought into new forms and mouldings where possible; while in Canterbury the piers were altogether rebuilt. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
  • Her client's false testimony forces the Deputy Attorney General, the rabid Canterbury-hating Zach Williams (Terry Kinney), to call the hothead father to the stand as a rebuttal witness. PopMatters
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums.
  • Presiding over the debate, gently — too gently? — prodding the communion toward acceptance of gay clergy, is Rowan Williams, the brilliant and beleaguered archbishop of Canterbury. The Velvet Reformation
  • Canterbury was self-governing, self-supporting and self-reliant.
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury has sounded a warning to Europe'sleaders on third world debt.
  • No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public. William and Kate
  • What I hadn't realised was that the same dualistic heresy made it to England, specifically Canterbury and Oxford, where believers were known as "publicans" – nothing to do with barmen, but a corruption of "popelican", whatever that meant. Simon Hoggart's week: Lot valley? The French aren't kidding
  • Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant! Contributions to All the Year Round
  • At Rochester they spotted an ambassador and his escort, and fled over the fields to Canterbury.
  • The Sydney Turf Club had planned a seven-race card at Canterbury Park Racecourse with the Starlight Stakes the feature race.
  • The term primate was at once substituted for that of metropolitan, since the archbishops of Canterbury did not claim the right to exercise an administrative authority within the see of The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
  • The second was written for a book on Canterbury's natural history and dealt with the aspects of weather which have been a subject of Neil's research - climate, weather, climate change, the effects of nor'westers and of winter.
  • Peter Fulton put Canterbury in command on the first day of their clash against Central Districts in Christchurch.
  • By his death, Theodore had built up the episcopate and created an organized, united church under Canterbury.
  • A weaver to Canterbury his way did wend, And to Heaven his soul I did send. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • In December 1882, he was elevated to the archiepiscopate of Canterbury.
  • He also knows Canterbury well, so he is able to slip through sideways and alley-ways whenever he wishes. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Plants that may require staking to hold their blooms high include Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, and verbascums, with foxgloves and delphiniums in the upper garden zones.
  • Got home fri, unpacked * most* of my stuff ... left for canterbury sat morning, got there at lunctime. Abutterfly Diary Entry
  • Alexander was lame, _pedibus contractus_, from his birth, we are told that after twenty-four years of pain and discomfort -- _vigintiquatuor annis penaliter laborabat_ -- he made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and there "the sainted Thomas, the divine clemency aiding him, on the second day of the month of May did straightway restore his legs and feet, _bases et plantas_, to the same Alexander. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
  • The pilgrims from Evesham arrived in Canterbury on Tuesday and visited the shrine late on Wednesday morning. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Arrived at the close of the second day in Canterbury, the two "toke" their inn at the sign of the "Falstaff," where hung "Honest Jack, in buff doublet and red hose," in a wonderful piece of wrought-iron work. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
  • In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury.
  • He was on one large North Canterbury sheep station in a swampy area at the confluence of the Pahau and Hurunui Rivers.
  • In May 1551 the king conferred on him the archdeaconry of Exeter, and appointed him one of the six preachers of Canterbury cathedral.
  • Julia also had slides of three windows in Canterbury Cathedral illustrating the tale of the Three Wise Men and their part in the story of the nativity.
  • The thefts have led John McCormack, 74, an allotment holder from Canterbury Avenue, Little Horton, to call for fences to be put up to keep the wreckers at bay.
  • It was the Archbishop of Canterbury's misfortune to have the issue of gay clergy - the nomination of Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading - 'come up' at the very start of his archiepiscopate. Just Williams
  • Justus he hallowed as bishop in Kent itself at Rochester, which is four-and-twenty miles right west from Canterbury, in which city likewise King Ethelbert ordered to build a church, and to hallow it to St. Andrew the apostle; and to each of these bishops the King gave his gifts and bookland and possessions for them to brook with their fellows. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • Though now under royal control the convocations of Canterbury and York survived.
  • There was a strong nor'wester blowing across the Canterbury Plains so we thought a walk on the sheltered side of the Port Hills would be a good choice.
  • Then a submersible pump, concealed in a sump, conveys it back up to a blockwork filter filled with Canterbury spar.
  • This essay is an analysis on the absence of female consciousness of "The Merchant's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by using one of Irigaray's feminist arguments.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Mr. Dean, who as a young father regaled his daughters with passages from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English and fed the girls plump blueberries from the back yard, died of a brain aneurysm Dec. 2 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. A Local Life: Alan L. Dean, 92, the 'Ideal Father'
  • The second was written for a book on Canterbury's natural history and dealt with the aspects of weather which have been a subject of Neil's research - climate, weather, climate change, the effects of nor'westers and of winter.
  • However unpropitious the news from Canterbury, however downcast by events at The Oval earlier in the week, Shane Warne was far from a cowed figure at Sophia Gardens yesterday.
  • In one he expressly declared that the coronation of the Young King by the Archbishop of York did not constitute a precedent and that the right to crown and anoint the kings of England belonged to Canterbury.
  • It was a French architect, William of Sens, who was called in to rebuild the choir of Canterbury Cathedral after the fire of 1174.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Among other discourse, my cozen Roger told us a thing certain, that the Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be; and tells us it is Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
  • The dark, wooded pathways and the broad avenues of Williamson Park serve as the highways and by-ways of their journey to Canterbury.
  • Dr Rowan Williams, our recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, does not enjoy the unqualified support of the media - partly because it's quite difficult to make out what he is saying half the time.
  • When I was eight years old I started at the Choir School at Canterbury Cathedral and a year or so later joined the cathedral choir as a treble.
  • Joseph began work as a farm labourer and the family settled into Canterbury life.
  • Augustine (S.), Benedictine House at Canterbury: extract from custumary on care of MSS., The Care of Books
  • The couple were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury .
  • The sound of Beach House owes a good deal to old '60s Canterbury psychedelia and several spacey, hazy variants that came to follow. Symphonic Swells and a Six-String Slinger
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury elect becomes a Druid and is indignant at those who think he may be flirting with paganism.
  • It was after that that he left for Canterbury in the helicopter provided by British Caledonian Airways. CONFESSIONAL
  • The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
  • I don't know why, butI can't work out whether it is embarrassing or entertaining to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury saying 'plonker'. Archive 2005-10-01
  • He was replaced as chancellor after Richard's resumption of authority in 1389, but again held the office from 1391 until he was translated to Canterbury in 1396.
  • Thomas Becket~, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, who was canonised, that is, named a saint after his death. The History of London
  • God, Thomas, Abp. of Canterbury, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation devised by Stephen Gardener, "&c. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
  • The Communion recognizes the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presides over the decennial Lambeth Conference, the principal meeting of Anglican bishops.
  • Among county boroughs the range was also extreme: Canterbury had only 33,000 souls while Birmingham had 1. 1 million citizens.
  • He was an early member of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club and in the course of his entire career climbed around 100 peaks, at least 23 of them previously unclimbed.
  • `A weaver to Canterbury his way did wend And I to Heaven his soul I did send. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Met up with The Spill Canvas Man (aka Ste) in London on the way back from Canterbury, and various times throughout the summer. Abutterfly Diary Entry
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • His anniversary was kept at Canterbury on 10 November, but there is uncertainty as to the year of his death, though 627, the commonly received date, would appear to be correct, especially as it fits in with the period of three years usually assigned by the chroniclers to his archiepiscopate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Offa's coinage was produced largely at Canterbury, by named moneyers, was more plentiful than before, and of higher artistic merit.
  • The family were walking home after a swimming gala in Canterbury when a car passed them on the lane and stopped ahead.
  • There was a strong nor'wester blowing across the Canterbury Plains so we thought a walk on the sheltered side of the Port Hills would be a good choice.
  • I imagine that Oxford and Canterbury had their reasons to believe he might not do a bad job.
  • Cardinal Cole published a list of fifty-four Articles, containing instructions to the clergy of his diocess of Canterbury, some of which are too ludicrous and puerile to excite any other sentiment than laughter in these days. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
  • Canterbury Museum is a major funder of the tupuna research through a Mason Foundation grant. ScreenTalk
  • This is a man, remember, who in his column last weekend urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to close down the Church of England with the words: I tell you this, beardie. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Removal of the baches was required under the North Canterbury Conservation Board's 1998 plan for the reserve.
  • Planted along with traditional peonies, irises and chrysanthemums, are lupines, veronicas and Canterbury bells, a contemporary feature rarely seen in Japanese gardens.
  • To be a courtier, a royal familiaris, was to be a man who might be at any time singled out to levy a tax, to govern a shire, to lead a campaign, even to kill the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Canterbury punters waited six months before hearing just their stake money would be returned on a £60,000 coup.
  • The pop festival has shocked the good burghers of Canterbury.
  • Interestingly, the Archbishop of Canterbury has so far declined to comment but spokesmen say, somewhat unenthusiastically, that His Grace could ‘see the value’ in inviting them.
  • Of such are adlumia, Canterbury bell, lunaria, ipomopsis, oenothera Lamarckiana; and foxglove, valerian, and some other perennials would better be treated as biennials. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • My earliest Messiah memories belong to childhood days in the 1960s as a chorister at Canterbury cathedral being giving arias to perform as a unison group. Massive Messiah
  • incendiaries" at home; and the Archbishop of Canterbury and eleven bishops passed a resolution declaring that if the French should land, or Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
  • For the first time, representatives of all churches in communion with Canterbury were assembled, and around the theme of common mission.
  • The couple were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury .
  • As part of the unending dispute between Canterbury and York he refused consecration in 1114 by the archbishop of Canterbury and was eventually consecrated at Rheims, receiving the pallium from Pope Calixtus II.
  • Canterbury has such a garden (financed by the council) which has raised beds with sweet-smelling shrubs and plants.
  • Canterbury has its Cathedral which is dedicated to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. And it preserves the oldest Franciscan building in Britain.
  • A visit from Canterbury certainly cheers up hard-pressed and often despondent clergy and congregations.
  • It reflects much of Canterbury's early history being decorated outside and inside with the heraldic emblems of early settlers, governors and supporters of the Summit Road Scheme.
  • Afterwards, she lived mainly at Hellesdon or Caister, where she managed her husband's property while he pled his case in London before the courts and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Chaucer was a great English poet, The Canterbury Tales was his most popular work for their power of observation, piercing irony, sense of humour and warm humanity.
  • But even the most cursory of glances at The Canterbury Tales will convince you that this is hardly new.
  • Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury and justiciar (1194–98), ruled England well, maintained the king's peace, and began a clear reliance on the support of the middle class in town and shire. B. The British Isles
  • The grazing lands attracted Australian pastoralists called Shagroons who were contemptuous of the Canterbury Pilgrims.
  • The Sarum breviary was reissued and ordered to be used throughout the province of Canterbury.
  • The pop festival has shocked the good burghers of Canterbury.
  • The bigger players choose one or the other, which has led to the cannibalization of some of Canterbury's best horseplayers.
  • In 1952 he was consecrated as bishop of Durham, becoming archbishop of York in 1956 and finally of Canterbury in 1961.
  • Few Afternoon Plays are prefaced by an array of talking heads, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an explication of the text.

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