How To Use Weald In A Sentence
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I'd say name it except for your second point, that named Wealden brachiosaurids are plentiful and once better material is described, some would near certainly be synonymized.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV
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For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
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Wenger protests that his player is innocent of the charges against him, though the fact that Fábregas chooses to wear a vest will lead many to conclude that he is attempting to conceal the boiling weald of the succubus from a vigilant public.
Why the witch-hunt against Cesc Fábregas gets my goat | Harry Pearson
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Set high on the Weald with views towards Romney Marsh, the 90-acre property was a rather neglected spread with a pretty tile-hung house, a straggle of outbuildings and no garden to speak of.
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IN THIS year Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons deprived Sigeberht of his kingdom because of his unjust acts, except for Hampshire; and he retained that until he killed the ealdorman who stood by him longest; and then Cynewulf drove him into the Weald, and he lived there until a swineherd stabbed him to death by the stream at Privett, and he was avenging Ealdorman Cumbra.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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The past falls open unexpectedly, and its wider accretions and effacements – the lost forest of Andredesleage, the iguanodon bones Gideon Mantell discovered in the Wealden sandstone, the Piltdown Man forgery a century later – loom over the landscape she walks through.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
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For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
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The lush gardens are brimful with carved stoneware, unusual plants, fountains, and winding paths leading out into the open land of the Weald.
The 10 best quirky campsites
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Much Wealden woodland has been managed as coppice, often in combination with standard trees, principally oak.
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A scorecard is the only record of the 1910 Leytonstone versus South Weald showpiece.
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Rudyard Kipling spent the second half of his life at Bateman's, his solid Jacobean home in the Weald which had been 'untouched and unfaked' by Victorian 'improvers'
Weatherwatch
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The building materials? the rosy bricks, the russet hanging tiles, the massive oak beams, even the iron for hinges and latches? would have come from within a five-mile radius, which is why the house feels like a natural outcrop of the hummocky Sussex Wealden landscape in which it sits.
Hancox: All under one roof
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The black and blue marks athwart the weald, which now barely is so stripped, indicate the presence of sylvious beltings.
Finnegans Wake
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Tom Wealdon used to remark, with a chuckle, from time to time, in the thick of the fuss and conspiration which was the breath of his nostrils; and, doubtless, so they are, and were, and ever will be, until the time-honoured machinery of our election system has been overhauled, and adapted to the civilisation of these days.
Wylder's Hand
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Museums display a few French cast iron mortars, and in the 17th and 18th centuries fine decorated firebacks were cast in the Sussex and Kentish Weald.
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The close proximity of the Isle of Wight-Purbeck fault zone probably also had an effect on Wealden sedimentation in the Wcssex Basin, as the downthrow on these faults decreases to the west.
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A tentative correlation with a Tethyan reference carbon-isotope curve allows the provisional application of stage-level chronostratigraphy to the Wealden Group.
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Westbury, there is good iron-ore in the greensand, which is being smelted now, as it used to be in the Weald of Surrey and Kent ages since.
Madam How and Lady Why
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Since its second first flight from North Weald last September Harry has used his red rocket for both business and pleasure.
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I suspect they are a strictly local phenomenon, hanging around in festoons in The Weald.
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In spring, clouds float slowly over green weald.
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Several academic projects that have been mentioned on the blog have yet to come to fruition, including that long-delayed manuscript on British dinosaur diversity, and work on Cretaceous Spanish vertebrates, Wealden sauropods, and azhdarchid ecology.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Of special interest to me right now are the dinosaurs of the British Wealden (of course), the intriguing tie-ins between Wealden fossil collectors, Conan Doyle's Lost World and the Piltdown fiasco, convergence between different fossorial tetrapods, manatee evolution, and British big cats (yes, really).
Archive 2006-01-01
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In 1541, William Levett was the royal" gunstone maker ", that is, he made cast iron cannon-balls at a foundry in the Weald built by his elder brother in 1534.
Barista
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Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for ￡10,000.
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In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be traveling with the king's court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea.
Excerpt: The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
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It came up over the weald by night with a great wind.
The Hare And The Tortoise - Lord Dunsany
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Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay -- the impenetrable "weald," for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.
The Adventure of Black Peter.
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Bronca is generally regarded to be a Latin American phenomenon, yet France's debut novel suggests that the rolling weald of East Sussex harbours its fair share of bronca as well.
Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
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‘I'm thinking you know you've mousetrapped me fair and square,’ he told her, ‘but I've a mind to hear a bit more about you before we're off to the South Weald.’
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Born in the Weald of Kent, Caxton went to London at the age of 16 to apprentice to a mercer.
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Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from
The War in the Air
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The occurrence of the clay here as an inferior bed, with but the cornstone of the Old Red beneath, and all the beds of the Weald resting over it, forms a riddle somewhat difficult of solution; but it is palpably not reading it aright to regard the deposit, with at least one geologist who has written on the subject, as older than the rocks above.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave
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Strange how you advocate that Britain should weald "a big stick" but castigate Israel for doing the same.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It is, on the contrary, as a vast amount of various and unequivocal evidence demonstrates, incalculably more modern; nay, we find proof of the fact here in that very bed which has been instanced as rendering it doubtful; the clay of which the interpolation is composed is found to contain fragments, not only of the cornstone on which it rests, but also of the Wealden limestone and shales which it underlies.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Clearance of woodland and heath (assarting) continued, especially in the Weald of Kent and Sussex, in the Chiltern hills, and in the Arden district of Warwickshire.
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On digging or boring below these, we ought to come upon the chalk, and below the chalk again, with its cretaceous congeners the greensand or the gault, we ought to meet the Weald clay and the Hastings sand.
Science in Arcady
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The river Tern, which flows south from the Weald Moors – an ancient fenland that had been drained by the 18th century – met the Severn at Atcham and backed up across fields into parkland at Attingham.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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He enjoyed the quiet rolling countryside of the weald; the pale, late autumn sun, the red and gold of thinning leaves on dark branches, the pools of red and gold below on the wet green turf.
Poem About Never Growing Up
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Suppose Count Mercier wished to say that he was sorry that his tobacco had been captured by the foe, why should he couch it in such language as, 'Thá mee ongan hréowan thaet mín _tobacco_ on feónda geweald feran sceolde' -- which is the good _old_ Anglo-Saxon idiom. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
