A hilly county in southwestern England

Usage examples of cornwall.

And in time he came to a great hedge and a gate with a little brick lodge, and when he rang the bell there hobbled to admit him no robed and annointed lackey of the palace, but a small stubby old man in a smock who spoke as best he could in the quaint tones of far Cornwall.

Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper I Lahaina, Maui, 1854 The warm, coarse beach sand was the odd pinkish color of the squirrelfish, the ocean as deep an aqua as the bluefin trevally.

A few boats were to patrol between the Scilly Isles, Cornwall and the French coast.

Means finally lent her voice in support of Bridgeport remaining in town and suggested he send his secretary to Cornwall instead.

Caerlisle, Caerdiff, Caerphilly, Caernarvon, and Caeruriah in Cornwall.

Gascoigne had gone to Dunbarton in Cornwall to visit the Earl of Haverford.

On their left hand, some ten miles to the south, stood out against the sky the purple wall of Hartland cliffs, sinking lower and lower as they trended away to the southward along the lonely ironbound shores of Cornwall, until they faded, dim and blue, into the blue horizon forty miles away.

Equally, an indentured servant was as likely to come from Lanarkshire or Wales or Cornwall as from London.

As he recuperated in a military hospital in Cornwall, he grew bored and occupied himself with a posthypnotic suggestion.

Cornwall and things Cornish--before which the Scotticism of Professor Blackie shows like a feeble, half-developed instinct, make up the character of that strange race who live beyond the Tamar, and many of whom are about as much like Englishmen as the Samoeydes.

So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.

They are the sons of men from Cornwall and Devon, and nearly twenty years of Taranaki life has moulded them into expert bushmen, familiar with the forest tracks and the terrain, and thus able to meet us on level terms.

I have been busy, first with a somewhat unexpected visitor, a cousin from Cornwall, who has been spending a few days with us, and now with Miss Wooler, who came on Monday.

General Aiden Cornwall and his nine-year-old son still lay on their backs in the upstairs hallway It was a cold, calculated, very professional killing.

Also, from what I understand, Aiden Cornwall was a conservative, not a liberal like the other victims.