| 单词 | village green |
| 例句 | At Lexington, about halfway to Concord, the Redcoats saw about 70 militiamen lined up on the village green. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the five of us left the school, crossed the village green and headed for the sweet-shop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z After school was over, the same four boys and I would set out together across the village green and through the village itself, heading for home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He had hoped it would nod its head or stamp a hoof, like a trained horse he had once seen on the village green when he was younger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Already on every village green throughout New England, men and boys were drilling in defiance of the King’s orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns our village green into this underwater kingdom. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They continued to build their churches in village greens dotting the coast, but found it difficult to progress into the interior of the country. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As I jogged over the village green, the Goose Fair slid off and fell away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As for Mr and Mrs Taylor themselves, I have ascertained that they ran the village green grocery here from the twenties until their retirement three years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Like a rude commoner watching performers on some village green, Hamlet commented loudly throughout the play. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They knew it was a rough and homely place compared to the farmhouses along the road and the ample mansions around the village green. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Birdsong strafed and morsed from the oak on the village green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After our lessons, we joined the children playing barley-break in the dusty streets and on the village green. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z On the village green, the queen’s men built their pyre. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As his head flipped back, another boot cracked into his shin and a little sporting cheer went up, with some uneven applause, as though for a decent catch in the slips on the village green. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z While Anya finished her errands, Ash wandered among the peddler’s stalls in the village green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The temperature drops to a chilling minus 35 degrees, snow blankets the village green and neighbors trudge through the towering drifts to warm themselves by the fireside at the local inn. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Seated in a narrow horseshoe around a patch of the spiky, plastic grass found on greengrocer's displays, it feels as if you could be watching the opera in a tea tent on the village green. Albert Herring – review 2013-05-17T14:33:54Z We pedaled a few blocks over to the village green, where a Bicycle Express shuttle was waiting, part of Acadia’s Island Explorer system, an efficient and free bus service. Journeys: New Ways to See 3 Classic Parks 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z This time, however, it is grounded in current realities – drug addiction, racism, schoolboy bullying as well as the usual stiletto snobberies around the ruined abbey and the village green. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review 2012-09-29T23:05:13Z Danny Boyle's opening ceremony took an unashamed delight in Britain's past glories and nodded to a few of its horrors, from cricket on the village green to the rise of the ironmaster. Christmas gifts 2012: the best history books 2012-11-29T09:00:04Z This just before Pie herself, “a long girl, wobbly in heeled shoes, bowlegged, shifty — bored perhaps — but friendly, quick to laugh, on any errand making an impression,” disappears traceless from the village green. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z There was, however, a kit bag full of cricketing whites; hence the transference of Titipu to a typical village green. The Mikado 2010-07-15T20:45:00Z Late last Tuesday afternoon, the village was so quiet that the sound of metal clanging against anvil in the blacksmith shop rung out across the village green. Does Naperville have it all? 2011-05-12T14:13:00Z The White Hart Inn sits on the village green — close to biking trails, the Appalachian Trail and an Olympic ski jump. Hotel Review: White Hart Inn in the Berkshires 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Their house, made of white clapboard, has a wide veranda that faces the village green. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache In Weston it passes a village green — quintessential Vermont — on its path farther north. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z Ali Benjamin’s “quiet nowhere” is Starkfield, Mass., a fictional town in the Berkshires boasting “a nondescript village green, around which are scattered a handful of small businesses, no more than one of every variety.” Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z He will, he says, be concentrating on the "relationship between the politicians canvassing and the voting public with images from battle-buses and village greens to polling stations and shopping centres". Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z It's a fine story, one in keeping with the eccentric Britishness of the show, as it concerns both a global alien threat and a nice village green. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-07-30T07:00:00Z There will also be a "village green" of town houses with gardens. BBC TV Centre: viewers offered chance to buy slice of landmark building 2013-02-05T13:20:00Z Photo: PR There'll be bunting across the breezeblocks as Home Live Art's "gloriously unconventional event" transforms London's South Bank with gingham tablecloths, stripy market stalls and even a "village green". This week's new events 2011-08-26T23:06:07Z At 17, he remembers “small-town girls” and “soft summer nights” on the village green. Ervin Drake, songwriter of ‘It Was a Very Good Year,’ dies at 95 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And the piano was like a village green, where paths effortlessly crossed, and anyone could linger. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z At 10 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday morning in early June, the place is as sleepy as a village green. As lockdown restrictions ease, a changed London awaits the return of foreign tourists 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Backdrops include historic New England meeting houses, village greens and Cathedral of the Pines, an open-air concert space perched on a hilltop overlooking Grand Monadnock Mountain. This Summer, Get Invigorated With a Live Cultural Performance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z She took in the quiet country lanes, the village green and old brick houses, the everyday luxuries that British people take for granted. Grieving Ukrainian mom finds refuge in UK, but little solace 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Crowds gathered on Culcheth village green to pay their respects to Brianna, just a few hundred yards from the Linear Park where she was found stabbed a week ago. Brianna Ghey: Vigil held near park where she was found in Culcheth 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z People are clubbing together to plant fruit trees on local green spaces, from village greens to schools. Apple boom: Why community orchards are on the rise 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “At what point do we regard him as a crank on the village green, a person we can walk away from if we choose?” Infowars rep to return to stand in Sandy Hook hoax trial 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The trip easily included the Vermont fare of covered bridges, village greens, white church spires and maple syrup. In Barre, Vt., granite is a way of life — and beyond 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Alerted by the messengers, about 70 minutemen from the town of Lexington gathered on their village green before dawn. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On April 19, 1775, British soldiers and American militiamen exchanged gunfire on the village green in Lexington, Massachusetts. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the pair, now aged in their 70s, reminisce over summers spent playing on the village green, it is clear they have a deep connection. What happened to the British children born to black GIs? 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z There’s a book club that meets outdoors, he added, sitting in a circle on the “village green” while children and dogs play nearby. Saybrooke has changed, but its values remain 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The village green was clear-cut and bulldozed, the wooden bandstand taken down, the dirt roads paved and widened. Goodbye to a Yankee Farmer, the Ghost of Exit 8 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The outlet shared that when the Fidlers returned to Bucklebury that evening, there were hundreds of people on the village green still celebrating. Prince William, Kate Middleton’s wedding guests say ‘everything outside just roared’ during televised ceremony 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z That name fits, because the homes were built around two large village greens — grassy expanses used for community-building events such as barbecues, Fourth of July fireworks, summer movie nights and winter bonfires. Near the Potomac, community has three names and two qualities: Peace and quiet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Gifted to Calstock parish more than 120 years ago, it is now registered as a village green. Country diary: a visit to the little haven of Pleasure Piece 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The L-shaped development of 24 townhouses is being built with its namesake village green — a small park — at the intersection of two streets. Townhouses with an urban feel in suburban Chantilly, Va. 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z He often cycles through Meriden and today is sitting on the bench close to the Cyclists' Memorial on the village green. Brexit regret in the centre of England? 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z In Greenport, a village flush with summer tourists, the route is called Front Street and passes a village green with a carousel overlooking the old whaling harbor. A Single Road With Many Names, Traversing Many Worlds 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “It’s just there in the back of your mind and the one time you need it you’ll think, ‘There’s one on the village green!’” The Red Phone Box, a British Icon, Stages a Comeback 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Then something disturbs Three Pines’ tranquillity: a mute, motionless figure, obscured in black robes and a mask, standing on the village green for days. The year’s best crime fiction, Part 2 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The Waco Tribune-Herald reports in the shadow of the rusted silos, children toss beanbags on a village green of artificial turf. Waco’s economy benefits amid final season of ‘Fixer Upper’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z There's a steady stream of people going about their business, with customers popping in and out of the convenience store, which sits in a row of shops overlooking the village green. Brexit regret in the centre of England? 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z “If you think about it, they designed the roads, the village greens — everything,” he said, referring to Mr. Levitt and his brother Alfred. In Boy Scouts Speech, Trump Hails and Puts Down Creator of Levittown 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z "That could be picnics on your village green, street parties, shared barbecues, community bake-offs. The basic idea is to get together and have fun." Street parties planned to remember murdered MP Jo Cox - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z It is all a long way from the village green, admits the official. Sticky wicket 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z When we finally made it off the highway, my parents became calmer, admiring the quaint churches, old houses and windmills planted on village greens. Fat Dad: The Coffee and Cigarette Diet 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z George Washington’s troops drilled on the village green in view of the ancient oak, and the general picnicked beneath it with his friend the Marquis de Lafayette. A town tries to care for, and let go of, its oldest resident — a 600-year-old oak 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z It is a scene you might expect on a fragrant summer's evening on a Yorkshire village green. Cricket-loving Asian migrants take game to Germany - BBC News 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z As an attempt to increase openness and stop corruption, the news was also available to the illiterate - town criers stood on village greens and announced the whole village's taxes. Tax transparency: Could the UK take a leaf out of Norway's book? - BBC News 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z There should be strong pedestrian and street connections, as well as a village green with civic, shopping, housing and employment functions blended into adjacent mixed-use developments. Flaws in the Prince George’s Plaza Transit District development plan 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z On Saturday, a bronze statue of Lermontov, whose verse is considered by many Russians as second only to Aleksandr Pushkin’s, will be unveiled on the tidy village green. Scottish Village to Commemorate Ancestral Ties to Renowned Russian Poet 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z From the beginning, the hulking edifice drew furrowed brows in Goshen, a lovingly preserved town with a harness racing museum, village green and buildings harking back to the Revolutionary War. New York preservationists, officials square off over concrete boxes 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z An ancient monument on the village green marks the "traditional centre of England". Election 2015: Does the heart of England want more say on English matters? - BBC News 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Steve Jones, chief executive of Tai Ceredigion housing association, says fighting applications to register village greens is a drain on resources. Village greens 'threatened' by bill 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The massive dining hall is located opposite the village green and finally it is time for dinner. Sleepover in the Athletes' Village 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The first prototype had to be abandoned because it would have been 15 feet tall — suitable, perhaps, for a broad Moscow boulevard, but not for Earlston’s village green. Scottish Village to Commemorate Ancestral Ties to Renowned Russian Poet 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Villagers say that the "fish rain shower" took place on Monday with the creatures falling on the village green, roads and roofs. Fish rain down on Sri Lanka village 2014-05-06T16:49:44Z The recent Supreme Court case may provide some encouragement to house builders in other parts of the country, where village green status is being questioned. Village green fears after ruling 2014-03-07T12:02:17Z Their case for a village green application goes to a public hearing in December. Village greens 'threatened' by bill 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The plans show the housing designed around a series of "village greens". Housing plan for former factory 2014-01-03T06:29:47Z I am from a working class background and have an empathy with sports from village green level to top level. Rugby League in Australia eyes growth 2013-12-02T12:01:50Z Deputy leader Huw George said village green status would change forever what could be done with the site. Row over castle land to be decided 2013-10-23T06:52:05Z The effort included restaurants, bars, the library, the village green and even a space tucked into a retirement development. | Westchester: Expanding, Musically and Geographically 2013-07-27T00:49:33Z The Welsh government said that under the current system there was nothing to stop people making "vexatious" applications for village greens. Village greens 'threatened' by bill 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Children buzzed around an open-sided tent pitched by the street and families spread blankets on the tiny village green. British Village Protests Plan for Shale Gas Drilling 2013-05-24T21:46:03Z Skateboarders are unhappy, and want to register it as a community space under laws designed to protect village greens. The secret colonies of graffiti artists and skateboarders 2013-05-20T10:45:18Z Developers have shown interest in some of the castle's buildings The town council decided then that the only way to protect the site for good was to apply for village green status. Row over castle land to be decided 2013-10-23T06:52:05Z The spot is now set to be demolished as part of a £120m revamp – unless campaigners succeed in having it declared a village green and it is saved. Moving South Bank's skaters would be vandalism of our cultural heritage 2013-05-13T06:00:31Z The Southbank says it is aware of the village green application and will be taking time to consider it. Skateboarders form village green preservation society for Southbank 2013-05-10T16:14:00Z The south of the site will also feature a "village green" of town houses for families with private rear gardens. BBC TV Centre plans include hotel 2013-02-05T16:17:23Z Offer them the chance to play a village green match tomorrow and they will invent any excuse to get out of the office. Tony Greig's Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture – in full 2012-12-29T14:06:58Z Nestled amid a number of alluring shops and pubs near the village green, it is a nice spot for a drink or a sandwich - but web access is incredibly difficult to get. Churches help tackle internet blackspots 2012-12-13T00:30:19Z The Open Spaces Society is particularly angered by changes to village green laws, which apply to any patches of open ground enjoyed by local people - not just in villages. Campaigners angry at growth bill 2012-11-05T03:17:14Z I suppose that its nearest able-bodied relative is the French sport of boule, or our own village green game of bowls. Jon Snow: the London Paralympic Games will excite and uplift us all 2012-08-24T21:59:46Z They bought a two-story house within walking distance of a grade school in Fair Haven, a small town known for Victorian houses and summer music on the village green. A Civil Union Ends in an Abduction and Questions 2012-07-29T00:59:12Z Sometimes cricket can feel like it has given you everything, the moment when you score a Test 100 or score the winning run on the village green when you were batting at number eleven. Tony Greig's Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture – in full 2012-12-29T14:06:58Z And I liked the opening image of a lost vision of pastoral England: a place of shire horses, sheep and cows, Maypole dancing, home-baking and cricket on the village green. Olympics opening ceremony: the theatre review 2012-07-27T23:10:20Z In response to its plans to turn this well-loved green oasis into a sterile entrance "plaza", residents have applied for village green status under the Commons Registration Act 1965/Commons Act 2006. Letters: The battle over our communal spaces 2012-06-17T20:00:05Z Meadows, fields, rivers, farmers tilling the soil and people playing cricket on the village green. Are green and pleasant Games a real reflection of the UK? 2012-06-13T11:53:49Z Photograph: David Davies/PA It was one of those moments where the village green intruded upon the stately portals of Lord's. Shivnarine Chanderpaul showed why he took precedence over Darren Bravo 2012-05-17T18:17:13Z Philip laughed heartily at this; just then Mr. Dorward passed over the village green, which gave him an opportunity to rail at his cassock. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z They run about and romp and dance and gambol very much as a similar number of English children would do on the village green, or in the streets and lanes of a home city. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z But there came a day when he was roasting alive an old witch on the village green. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z On the village green, every prophet from Isaiah to Malachi might be seen of an evening playing leap-frog: unless, indeed, Zephaniah was stealing apples in the garth. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Upon the village green; the mortality is still spreading, it being found impossible to undo the knots in which the victims have tied themselves. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z Little boys in light trousers and short jackets and little girls in narrow frilled gowns used to play it on the village green a hundred years ago. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Near this village green a few armed men still lingered in the faint light of dawn, conversing in low voices, and glancing often down the deserted Boston Road. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Our little disaster had come to us half-way on the road passing through a village green, very spacious, fringed on the left with stray cottages, of which one turned out to be the post office. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The camps were pitched on what might be called the village green. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Gladly would I see the Sunday school where the doctrine of eternal fire is taught, changed to a happy dance upon the village green. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The main road here goes on, to pass out of Cambridgeshire into Suffolk, a few miles further, at the upland village of Horseheath, with its picturesque old-world village green on the hillside. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z I saw her hurry across to the village green, carrying a sack of home-moulded bullets. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Mitcham is at present beyond these brick and mortar tentacles, and is grouped not unpicturesquely about a village green and along the road to the Wandle. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Such crosses were erected in the centre of the market place, in the churchyard, on the village green, or as boundary stones, or marks to guide the traveller. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z A wild-beast show was stationed on the village green it seemed, and there was a triumphal procession through the streets of the little town. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z "Oh, God preserve you from the wicked thought, Gretna Green or any other such unlawful heathenish village green!" The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z I passed the Lexington company re-forming on the trodden village green. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z At any rate, the common folk heard him gladly, before the church or on the village green. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z And I am glad that while there come to me These fragrant memories of life's early scene, That still in robes of purest white I see The Church Spire rising on the village green. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z There were certain objections to the inn he chose, however; so, having settled the Wanderer on the broad village green, I went to another inn. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The village green on a summer's evening or during a holiday, is frequently the scene of many a rustic amusement. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z Our inn stood on the corner of the town square, opposite the village green. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Watching ram-fights is a favourite recreation, and crowds gather round the village green to witness these huge creatures, with their long crumpled horns, dashing at each other at full speed. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z That was a day to be remembered long, When crowds were gathered on the village green, To welcome with warm hearts and floral song, Him who a friend in war's dark hour had been. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z It was somewhat noisy this afternoon on the village green. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Unlike the present day, liberal money prizes did not tempt competitors on the village greens. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z It is always harder to change customs than creeds, and religious observances live on, as every maypole on a village green tells us, long after the beliefs which animated them are forgotten. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Now they turned a corner of the rock and all was hidden, the village green with all the people and Joseph--and every thing, every thing was gone. The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z The bell still rings within the white church spire, Rising toward heaven upon the village green, Whose chimes then called the people, pastor, choir, To praise and pray each Sabbath morn and e'en. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z When we think of things quintessentially English, the village green, parish church and local pub spring to mind. Rural idyll 2011-07-07T09:27:53Z The victor in the match of the previous day was greeted with hearty cheers, by a crowd collected on the village green. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z "We found there was no registered owner, so the way forward was to register it as a village green." The lake that really is a village green 2011-07-07T08:18:12Z "In a village green, and in single combat," answered Randal, smiling; and he told the story of the Battle of the Stocks with a well-bred jest on himself. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z No cricketer that ever played on the village green could throw with such unerring force. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Daring to present himself at the Trevethlan Arms, he was ejected with violence and derision, and was hooted and pelted from the village green. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Bowls brings connotations of the summer, of parks and pristine village greens, with young and old dressed in white and the gentle ripple of applause. Britain's hidden bowling obsession 2011-05-05T07:18:40Z But here it was exactly as represented—except that Adam Bede’s cottage has been enlarged and repainted and a few small houses now occupy the village green where Dinah Morris preached. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z At the top, a broken slope, sprinkled with trees, serves as village green to the few houses which constitute the place known as Barden Tower. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z From colonial times until 1871 a kind of football generally resembling the English Association game was played on the village greens and by the students of colleges and academies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The common people sang or played games on the highways and feasted on the village greens. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z The church bell was slowly tolling and there seemed to be thousands of people upon the village green. Roger Davis, Loyalist 2011-02-17T03:00:22.690Z Mrs. Vicar waved a white pocket-handkerchief from the gate of the manse, but the Vicar was bearing a chief part in a more dramatic tableau that had been arranged on the village green. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Yet apart from this the place has natural attractions, a village green, noble trees, Thorsgill within sight; and just beyond the green a mill of cheerful clatter. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z To him it was anathema, the root of all evil, the Goliath he was out to destroy, the blind beast squatting on men's bones, the idiot drivelling on the village green. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z After having said these unkind words, Walter took his ball-club, and went out to the village green, where the boys were already at play. Strive and Thrive or, Stories for the Example and Encouragement of the Young 2011-02-07T03:00:25.547Z At a little distance, all around the village green, the peaceful, embowered cottages kept their sentinel watch. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z There are also plans to revitalize Main Street, home to village hall, the village green and the post office, and to develop underutilized warehouse sites with retail stores, apartments or condos. | Farmingdale Village, L.I.: For First-Time Buyers Drawn to Yesteryear 2011-01-28T19:14:48Z Read Miss Mitford’s description of a cricket-match on the village green; watch a schoolboys’ game, consider the mirth and merriment that they get out of it, and sympathise with modern cricket if you can. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Really, the scene on this platform was like a village green in a comic opera, with all the minor characters dancing round the tenor! Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Therefore, we were pushed and hustled with many unnecessary indignities, all the throng following to the village green, and were set side by side in the stocks forthwith. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z The planning inspector ruled in October that it should be classified as a village green and the county council agreed last week. Fight to reopen beach 'to go on' 2010-12-27T13:32:33Z More than 1,000 people packed the village green for a vigil on Wednesday night, officials say. Killing of Immigrant Prompts Scrutiny in Summit, N.J. 2010-07-31T03:10:00Z Village green laws halt building Melanie Abbott Producer, You and Yours Housing developers claim ancient laws designed to protect village greens are being misused to stop them building affordable homes on disused land. 2010-02-17T10:50:00Z On arriving at Polwarth, they were met by the glad villagers, with whom the fair ladies joined hands, and they danced together in joy around a thorn-tree, upon the village green. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 Brand and brank have passed away, the stocks and pillory no longer grace our village greens. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days In the center of the village green stood the square, white meeting-house, and near by the small cottage where the pastor lived; the minister's daughter, Mary, was my promised wife. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches Shortly after you come to the village green, where the first stand was made for liberty, and where there has been erected a beautiful monument in memory of the first Revolutionary martyrs. Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 They say that all kinds of areas, such as derelict railway land and former sugar beet fields, are suddenly being designated as village greens. 2010-02-17T10:50:00Z Beyond the trees there was a small clearing that almost corresponded to our English notion of a village green. Bye-Ways In the gray light of the early morning, April 19, 1775, as the soldiers marched into Lexington, on the way to Concord beyond, they saw some fifty minute men gathered on the village green. The Greater Republic A History of the United States His head-quarters at first were in what was called the Freemason's Tavern, on the north side of the village green. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Instead of a constricted box-like compartment such as the audience faces in the usual theater, the hillside or the village green may be the stage. The American Country Girl There were village greens with great silk-cotton trees, banyans and acacias, mangoes and oranges, and shaddocks with their large fruit glowing among the leaves like great golden melons. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses His songs for the most part are written in familiar metres, not calculated to puzzle any bonny singing Bess as she danced and lilted on the village green. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series One still supports a weathercock in the churchyard at Pendleton, Manchester; and in Derbyshire, a few years ago, several were to be seen standing on some of the village greens. Folk-lore of Shakespeare He sighs, he spits, he marks the scene, Proudly he treads the village green; And free from pettiness and rancour, Takes lodgings at the ‘Crown and Anchor.’ The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The accessories necessary for single-stick are much more numerous now than in the old days on the village green. Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence Cannon were fired and church bells rung, all along the route; while, after dark, huge bonfires were lighted on the hilltops and on every village green. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Facing the village green there stood a desirable house, which he would gladly have acquired for this purpose. The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord “Come, Anna�k,” he cried; “why are you asleep when all the others go to dance upon the village green?” Legends & Romances of Brittany In front of the veranda, on the high bank, was a pole, like the liberty-poles we run up on almost every village green of New England. Phemie Frost's Experiences In the side-streets, and upon a village green you Could scarce have looked more glad. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 Upon the village green; the mortality is still spreading, it being found impossible to undo the knots in which the victims had tied themselves. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 Bunyan preached wherever opportunity served—in woods, in barns, on village greens, or in town chapels. Bunyan Passing out upon the highroad, we came to the common browsing-patch, the "village green" of the tales of our youth. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index We are finally halted in an open space before the hotel, which is evidently intended to represent a village green or public square, the half-dozen houses of the place being scattered round it. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand As the last stars vanished before the dawn, the drum beat to summon the patriots to action, and in response a little band of about eighty men and boys assembled on the village green. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It was usually indulged in by the peasantry at fairs and on the village greens. Lady of the Lake Esher itself is scattered round a village green and a long broad street. Highways and Byways in Surrey This meant the village green without any "green." In the Tail of the Peacock He took the work as it came, and in the intervals, or on the summer evenings, he preached on the village greens in the neighbourhood. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford The old school on the village green succeeded the river and the mill in your history. The Art of Disappearing She delighted in the village green, the rectory garden, the fields waving with golden buttercups, and the shady woods in which the primroses twinkled. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Boulanger hurried forward, Isidore following him, and they soon came to an open spot that had served as a kind of village green, on which many articles of various kinds were strewed about. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Remote from sheltered village green, On a hill's northern side she dwelt, Where from sea-blasts the hawthorns lean, And hoary dews are slow to melt. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets As I was then a long way over the lines, sinking fast towards the tree-tops, I had no alternative, so endeavoured to reach the village green. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany He looked out of window at the well-kept drive that led to the house, and at the trim laurel bushes which separated the front garden from the village green. The Hero So now, descending from the Hawk's Lynch, we will alight at the east end of Englebourn, opposite the little white cottage which looks out at the end of the great wood, near the village green. Tom Brown at Oxford Any fund available for embellishing the village green will be best used in keeping its grass cut and its walks clean,—entire neatness and simplicity being its most effective characteristics. Village Improvements and Farm Villages Passing an ivy-clad church on the village green, they swung through massive iron gates, of very fine design, and entered the stately avenue of Shenstone Park. The Mistress of Shenstone Where once men safely strode Along the open road, A sinister and stertorous machine Exhales its acrid breath And deals impartial death To all the dwellers on the village green. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 In the old English games of forfeits, on the village green, the "hell" is the hidden place where the girls ran away to escape being kissed. The Gospel of the Hereafter While Roland was yet only a stripling, the great emperor, Charlemagne, passed through the town of Sutri, and while there dined in public on the village green. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds Again and again is the village green introduced to the imagination. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The music of the hills today is a thin echo of tunes that were sung on the village greens in Shakespeare’s time. Blue Ridge Country And though I sit in dull routine Schooled to the scholarship of books, My truant spirit outward looks And Fancy fills the village green! The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A man let us go through his store and climb over the back fence and then we came out on the village green. Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike It was a general holiday for the whole parish, and the people had congregated on the village green over by the church. Roger Trewinion The bricklayer, the stockbroker, the archdeacon, by going to see Lockwood bowl, depopulate no village green. From a Cornish Window A New Edition One day the seven young pigs escaped from their mother and went out for a run on the village green. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 The streets all led to a common centre, like a village green in England; here and there were wells, from which girls in Oriental costume were drawing water. The Three Commanders There’s a band-stand on that village green and a whole crowd of kids climbed up into it so as to see us. Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike I would go on to the village green, and there, perchance, I should see those who knew me in the past, and should give them a chance of recognising me. Roger Trewinion The Cricket Bat is very often seen Flying perchance around the village green; But unlike many other bats, its flight Is always made by day and not by night. A Phenomenal Fauna The wood was thrown on endwise, crosswise, or any way, so that it would burn, precisely as a crowd of boys make a bonfire on the village green. Woodcraft The three commonest are Hall, Wood and Green, from residence by the great house, the wood, and the village green. The Romance of Names He had made arrangements with a servant to meet him with horses on the village green. Historic Boyhoods The village green, and perhaps a half dozen of the white wooden houses which fronted it with their prim porticoes, were possibly a little more than a hundred years old. Days Off And Other Digressions They could, all together, have walked quietly across the village green to the forlorn tobacco-shed that ’Mian had given them for a schoolhouse, and begun the session. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Off she started at a run 39 Now in that village, every year The people held a cattle fair; And stalls and tents and swings were seen Set up upon the village green. Plain Jane They selected the village green or market-place as headquarters, and spreading a carpet or piece of cloth on the ground, proceeded to harangue the populace. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery He was the pet of the village school, the favorite on the village green. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel An elm on the village green was chosen, and round this patients gathered on stone benches as around Mesmer's baquet. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing Here, some time since, might have been seen, sailing over the village green, Old Phil, one of the white-winged birds I have described. Stories of Animal Sagacity Prim and particular and neat She minced along the village street, And safely reached the village green Unnoticed, and in fact unseen. Plain Jane Mindful of the latter's assertion that wood could be magnetized, he decided to experiment upon a large elm tree which grew upon the village green. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery For, at his uncle's house of Waverley-Honour, the houses of villagers, all white and neat, stood about a village green, or lurked ancient and ivy-grown under the shade of great old park trees. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Every village green was a drill-ground, every church a town arsenal. History of the United States, Volume 2 The small village green would do for horse lines and for parking our vehicles. Pushed and the Return Push If he pitches his cart on the village green, and talks with the village lads and lasses within hearing, he will, if he be a decent fellow, avoid the treatment of certain themes. My Contemporaries In Fiction Not many minutes later, a girl plainly but neatly dressed came slowly along in front of the village green, away up Main Street. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way Such is thy dreadful pastime, Angel-queen, When swooping headlong from the Armament Thou spreadest fear along the village green, Fear of the day when gravestones shall be rent. Ionica As we drove through the primrose-studded lanes, or past the village green, the bell was ringing from the grey tower of the Parish Church, and summoning the villagers to the daily Evensong of Holy Week. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Looking out, I saw a couple of troops of French cavalry picketing their tall leggy horses on the village green. Pushed and the Return Push In 1775, on the 19th of April, General Gage sent out troops to see about some military stores at Concord, but at Lexington he met with a company of minute-men gathering on the village green. Comic History of the United States The little processions toward the village green did not divide fairly after reaching there that morning. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way Wrestling was emphatically the most generally practised recreation, and the charming sketches in the Spectator of young men wrestling on the village green was no mere picture from the realms of fancy. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King The distant hum of the village green was just audible; but not so the French horn, which echoed in full melody through the groves. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 First, they found their way to the school, which stood on the border of the village green, a picturesque thatched cottage, with a honeysuckle and two tall poplars outside. The Carbonels On a few village greens the Maypole can still be seen, whilst the stocks in which offenders were placed are also left in some places. Lessons on Soil So have I seen Tom Piper stand upon our village green, Backed with the May-pole. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The rejoicings were unbounded and images of "Boney" were carried about in almost every village on donkeys or men's shoulders, and afterwards burned on the village green. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King On the village green the boys and girls were dancing in the sunshine and the dust. Marie Claire The stage represented one of those rural fêtes, where the peasantry of France gather on the village green, to mingle in the exhilarating dance. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The inn stood midway in one side of the village green, which was already surrounded with walking groups as well as stationary ranks awaiting patiently the opening of the game. Ambrotox and Limping Dick The young men dress themselves gaily, and, armed with wooden clubs, hie them to the village green. Denmark A landing was made directly on the village green, in front of the post-office, and a small crowd quickly collected. The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds Sports were entered into at the market cross and village green, and kept up till a late hour, when, by the ringing of a bell, the people were warned to retire to their homes. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales To give up dancing on the village green was still harder; and some months elapsed before he had the fortitude to part with his darling sin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" "Was he suspicious?" she asked, when a bend in the road had hidden "The Royal George" and even the village green. Ambrotox and Limping Dick But Tom saw a little of that kind of warfare which is fought in streets, from house to house, and in shaded village greens. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer "Clear the track!" cried Sam, and then, with the usual rush and roar, the Dartaway leaped over the village green and arose in the air, leaving the gaping and wondering crowd behind. The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds It so happened, that after Evellin had twice or thrice passed the little wicket that separated the parson's garden from the village green, he disliked taking any other road. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel We no longer fill our pitchers at a common fountain or dance on the village green or regulate the life of an entire city to the same signal from a campanile. The Patient Observer And His Friends The proceedings are opened on the village green by a mysterious speech from the fool:— “Now, good folks, this is Haxa’ Hood. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan On the27 little village green which the cottage faced groups of officers talked earnestly. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer To the left of the Diana Fountain there are a number of hawthorn trees, which stand apart, and are aged like those often found on village greens and commons. Nature Near London Strolling histriones, jongleurs and minstrels passed from court to court, appeared in castle yards, market places or village greens, recited, acted, sang, danced and played on musical instruments. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Note the many fine old cottages on either side of the village green. Hertfordshire At work in the cottage garden, or at play on the village green, even at his books and slate, he was ever the same industrious, active "Nimble Jim," and always a comfort to his mother. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 Four riders, finding they were getting left behind, started to make a short cut through Hesdigneul and there on the village green met the hares on the way home. The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. This is called a quintain post and stands in the center of the village green. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland On this dancing-place the whole body of worshippers would gather, just as now-a-days the whole community will assemble on a village green. Ancient Art and Ritual Next comes Malamocco itself, of which not much is seen but a little campo—almost an English village green—by the pier, and children playing on it. A Wanderer in Venice The Dancers of Ramersdorf At Ramersdorf every Sunday afternoon the lads and lasses of the hamlet gathered on the village green and danced gaily through the sunny hours. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine The dewdrops of the summer morn Display their silver sheen Upon the smoothly shaven lawn, And on the village green. New National Fourth Reader He drove to the inn as the likeliest place where he could get information, and entered the common parlour, a neat little whitewashed room, with clean sanded floor, that looked out upon the village green. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 Towards evening the Knave hurried up to the village green, where his friend sat doing penance for the theft. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales She walked quickly in her agitation, and passing the village green, came suddenly upon Poppy Jenkins, who was hurrying home to her mother's cottage. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls So fear passed from the hearts of the people, and because they were happy again the young folk once more assembled to dance the Sundays away on the village green. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine The "oldest inhabitant" can remember well the old stocks standing in the village green and can tell of the men who suffered in them. Vanishing England He says that next Corpus Christi, he's going to have Mass on the village green. The Altar Steps The village of Kenton was hidden in a small dell, and possessed a village green, in the centre of which were the remains of an old cross. From John O'Groats to Land's End This was in the summer of 1801 when the patriotic people of Cheshire, Massachusetts, turned out en masse to concoct a mammoth cheese on the village green for presentation to their beloved President Jefferson. The Complete Book of Cheese Henceforth the village green was deserted; no more were seen the lads and lasses dancing there on the Sabbath day. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine He is, therefore, an attendant at all the country fairs and wakes, and has signalised himself by feats of strength and prowess on every village green in the shire. Bracebridge Hall It appeared to him, now, with its lanes, its hedges, the village green, the moor, the Borhaze Road, the pirates, yes, and the Scarecrow. The Golden Scarecrow They were crossing a grass-covered space of land, probably the village green, and moving in the same direction as ourselves, not marching in any regular order, but walking leisurely in groups. From John O'Groats to Land's End At the head of its main street I looked down upon a village green and some fine old elms. The Light in the Clearing Proper old village green, you know, with a duck pond and cricket pitch and houses all round it. If Winter Comes It is a sort of promenade for the inhabitants and also serves as a village green, where all the fairs, shows and markets are held. Chateau and Country Life in France Monday afternoon he put away his tools and his bird-houses, and went off to the village green. Don Strong, Patrol Leader This street, the noisiest and most crowded of all Chicago at certain hours, was now as silent and deserted as a village green at midnight. Triple Spies Back to the tiny cottage looking out onto the village green and the old village well; back to four cups of tea and hot buttered toast; and then for Metternich and the Vienna Congress. Shandygaff She stopped, made her men get down and had him put in the stocks there and then—the old stocks were still standing on the village green. Marcella Many a soul has thus been born by the sea, in the grove, on the village green, at the place where streets meet in the busy city. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 He maintains the peace on the village green at holiday games, and quells all brawls and quarrels by collaring the parties and shaking them heartily, if refractory. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Hamilton was feeling almost well, and he walked rapidly across the village green to headquarters, delighted at the prospect of seeing Washington again. The Conqueror In less than ten minutes not a wagon or chaise was seen upon the village green. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 To say that it was as if a gold mine had been discovered under the village green is the feeblest of metaphors. Hillsboro People The thick, thunderous June airs brought us gusts of melody from a giddy-go-round steam-organ in full blast near the pond on the village green. A Diversity of Creatures He is, therefore, an attendant at all the country fairs and wakes, and has signalized himself by feats of strength and prowess on every village green in the shire. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists The village atheist and the first cornet in the local Salvation Army band meet on the village green and shake hands. Back to Methuselah This, as the name denotes, is the tune to which the dancers step as they leave the scene—be it stage, or high road, or village green—of their performance. The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England And yonder on the village green one comes with bated breath upon the simple inscription which tells of some humble hero who on that spot in the evil reign of Mary suffered death by fire. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty One fine morning he suddenly made his appearance on the village green, followed by some of his hangers on, bearing a theodolite, chains, measuring rods, sextants, compasses, and other instruments of land-surveying. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 In a somewhat pensive spirit she therefore, pursued her way, until, where the prospect widened as she reached the village green, a larger sky disclosed itself flaked with light cirrus cloud. Deadham Hard "But," I protested, "who said anything about boys and girls and kisses and village greens?" The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue At Lexington, the British found a few militiamen drawn up on the village green. A Short History of the United States His severed head was sent to Plymouth, where it was mounted on a pole and exposed aloft upon the village green, while the meeting-house bell summoned the townspeople to a special service of thanksgiving. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty When all ordinary measures to arrest the malady failed, the farmers met in solemn conclave on the village green and determined that next morning there should be a need-fire. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul A hundred yards or so and the village green would be reached. Deadham Hard "And so we come back to the girl and the boy and the village green!" The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue And when the curtain really did rise upon the inevitable spectacle of villagers dancing upon the village green! The Blood Red Dawn Perhaps some such formula as this would represent the typical scene that springs to the mind's eye with the phrase "the English countryside": a village green, with some geese stringing out across it. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays During the General Election of 1892 I heard an old labourer on a village green denouncing the evils of an Established Church. Collections and Recollections At dawn she tows a spotty cow To graze upon the village green; She plods for miles be'ind a plough, An' takes our washin' in between. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War But it might have been fairly said that Waterloo was won on the village green, where clumsy boys played a very clumsy cricket. All Things Considered The curtain rises on villagers dancing on the village green. The Blood Red Dawn So all these lands are mine; these yellow meads—These village greens, and forest-fretted hills,With dizzy castles crowned. The Saint's Tragedy The prettiest cottage on our village green is the little dwelling of Dame Wilson. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction But as time went on, things grew from bad to worse, and at all hours of the day you would see those young reprobates sleeping it off on the village green. The Ghost Ship Climbing the hill to the village green, Patrick had an urge to drive to Willow's, but he decided against it. Joe Burke's Last Stand More commonly, however, exchanges are direct, each man bringing to the village green his taro, yaqona, yams or fish and exchanging with his neighbors; the rare disputes being settled by the village chief. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Yoho, beside the village green, where cricket-players linger yet, and every little indentation made in the fresh grass by bat or wicket, ball or player's foot, sheds out its perfume on the night. Martin Chuzzlewit As they passed over the village green, the gaunt form of Corporal Bunting arrested their progress. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction They arrived on a village green, surrounded with cottages peeping from among the trees by which the green was completely encircled. Maid Marian The day’s work was done, and on the village green he found men and women, for the most part as ill-clad as himself, standing about in groups gossiping. Gathering of Brother Hilarius Bristol Swallow sets him downBeside the well-remembered town.He sighs, he spits, he marks the scene,Proudly he treads the village green;And, free from pettiness and rancour,Takes lodgings at the ‘Crown and Anchor.’ Moral Emblems It was mounted on its cast-iron equatorial stand, and at work in the field adjoining the village green at Bainbridge, Yorkshire. Men of Invention and Industry Lads and lasses dancing on the village green. Tono Bungay Doubtless there was a large sweep of park and a broad glassy pool in front of that mansion, but the swelling slope of meadow would not let our traveller see them from the village green. Adam Bede In the natural life of a country village all the lads and lasses grow up together, they meet together in religious associations, in daily employments, and in their amusements on the village green. In Darkest England and the Way Out Another club might not have among its members such a genial elderly gentleman who owned a village green. The Magic Egg and Other Stories He went straight to the village green where the goose-girl was leading her birds around, and bowed low before her as if she were a great lady. The Faery Tales of Weir There's a cricket match on at the village green.' Echoes of the War Barron, following her gesture, perceived through the half-open door two figures standing in the road on the farther side of a bit of village green. The Case of Richard Meynell The street is no doubt the city substitute for the village green, and what a substitute it is! In Darkest England and the Way Out It needed but a posse of peace officers at my heels to make up a brave string of us, catch-who-catch-can, like the game the lads play on the village green.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 With a good heart he went daintily on his way, shaking the snow from his paws at times, until he reached the village green. The Faery Tales of Weir These paths, so exactly like those crossing a village green, had in all probability never been trodden by human foot. The Leopard Woman With modest pencil paint the vernal scene, The rustic lovers, and the village green? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 On the old village green, which in too many of our villages has been inclosed and become a thing of the past, many of these sports and pastimes once took place. English Villages The village green in Holland is the village street or square in front of the church or 'Raadhuis.' Dutch Life in Town and Country For more than a hundred years its slender spire has glowed in the ruddy beams of early dawn, and cast at sunset its lengthening shadow across the village green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics April nineteenth, 1775, word was brought to him by a special messenger of the events which had occurred on the village green at Lexington. Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers The village green outside was flooded with sunshine, checkered by drooping elm branches. Together They looked with disfavor on May Day and Christmas festivities, observed the Jewish Sabbath in all its rigor, and condemned the Anglicans who played games and danced upon the village green on Sundays. Early European History Rich gardens, cool porticoes, and the shade of planted trees were more to the poet's taste than the rugged stile or the village green. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The village green or "smooth" lies rather at the western end of the village than at the center. The Duke of Stockbridge Miss Travers, who plays the organ with considerable expression on Sundays, suggested that a drinking fountain erected on the village green would be a pleasing memorial of their valour, if suitably inscribed. If I May There was to be dancing on the lawn after the breakfast, and in the evening on the village green for everybody, and later fireworks. Together They shared a common life in the work of the fields, in the sports of the village green, and in the services of the parish church. Early European History Author's note.—"Redclyffe shows how to find, under the surface of the village green, an old cross." Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance In all, before the stars had faded in the light of dawn, sixteen New Englanders lay dead or wounded on the village green. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 We shall miss Sir Aylmer's son Guy," the woman said; "he is ever down at the village green when there are sports going on. At Agincourt I pass through a gateway, out upon a village green, planted with rows of oaks, surrounded by trim sunny cottages, a pleasant oasis in the middle of the wilderness. Prose Idylls, New and Old No such preacher was there in England; and everywhere, in woods, in barns, on the village greens and in the chapels of the towns he preached his religion. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Adam set off home, and at a quarter to seven Seth was on the village green where the Methodists were preaching. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction Under a chestnut-tree that stood upon the village green, Arthur noticed, not a village blacksmith, but a small crowd, mostly composed of children, gathered round somebody. Dawn He ran down to the village green after tea, and there met one or two of his special chums, to whom he confided the events of the afternoon. Teddy's Button After wandering up and down for some time, I passed a house close to the village green, and saw the children with whom I had travelled sitting at tea close to the open window. Christie, the King's Servant His worst offenses, however, seem to have been dancing on the village green, playing hockey on Sundays, ringing bells to rouse the neighborhood, and swearing. Halleck's New English Literature Soon, led by his intense feelings, he becomes an open-air preacher, and crowds of laborers gather about him on the village green. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World It was back to the village green, now, with Frank. The Aeroplane Boys Flight A Hydroplane Roundup The scene is a village green before Justice Shallow's house. Practice Book It was a pretty sight to see that congregation gathering on the village green. Christie, the King's Servant Under trees, in barns, on the village green, wherever people resorted, he told them the story of salvation. Halleck's New English Literature Remote from sheltering village green, Upon a bleak hill-side, she dwelt, Where from sea-blasts the hawthorns lean, And hoary dews are slow to melt. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 A triangular strip of turf formed the village green, and the houses of Steynholme clustered around this and a side road climbing the hill. The Postmaster's Daughter On the village green the boys were playing a grand game of "round ball," for it was a half-holiday. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 The place is the same, our village green, the same rope is used, and those who pull are the very same men, strong, brawny, powerful fishermen. Christie, the King's Servant We'll try the old way that laddies use on the village green. Salute to Adventurers In New England the great day for such sports was training day, which came four times a year, when young and old gathered on the village green to see the militia company drill. A Brief History of the United States Nothing in the place was more blatantly mediaeval than the village green, across which Georgie took his tripping steps after leaving the presence of his queen. Queen Lucia The British were confronted on the village green of Lexington by about one hundred militiamen, who refused to disperse, and were fired upon by the British. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 The place is the same, Runswick Bay and our village green, but the weight to be drawn is not a boat, not a handkerchief; the weight is a human soul. Christie, the King's Servant From the mouths of many witnesses, in a series of outdoor gatherings every Lord's day evening in the past summer, they have heard, on their own village green, a present, free, and full salvation. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Men and women from the neighbouring villages, in their best Sunday clothes, were gathering on the village green, and all of them looked happy and very wide awake. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales Just opposite was the village green, and as nobody was quite close to him Georgie put on his spectacles, which he could whisk off in a moment. Queen Lucia When the red-coats, as the British soldiers were called, reached Lexington, they found a company of minute men gathering on the village green. A Brief History of the United States I thought I was once more on the village green. Christie, the King's Servant Summoned by the clanging church bell, all the men of the village met on the village green. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. On the eastern side of the road lies the village green. John Keble's Parishes Once he had meditated on the village green, but Lucia did not approve of that and had led him, still rapt, home by the hand. Queen Lucia The lane at last opened on a triangular piece of sward, looking like a village green. Warlock o' Glenwarlock He had pulled a stout oar in the college race, or walked the most graceful athlete on the village green. Public Speaking A pretty child dances on the village green. God and my Neighbour They saw the crowded village green, the petite maiden and her weird brother sitting upon its edge, as she began. From Jest to Earnest He had only just time to answer, "No such thing," for people were coming about them by this time, one after another emerging from the cottages that stood around the village green. Under the Storm The old Manor House, bought with his father's savings; the garden which was his mother's hobby; the cricket pitch on the village green. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel “Less a couple of hundred prisoners to boot,” chimed in Brereton, pointing at the village green, where the captives were being collected. Janice Meredith Surely this was Turnham Green again, or there must be another village green exactly like it in the heart of London. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Once upon a time, in a village in the south of France, it was arranged that there should be a general fete and dance on the village green the afternoon before Christmas. From Jest to Earnest Ho, ho!" cried Tom, and proud of having found them, he ran before them back to the village green, and roared out, "Here they be! Under the Storm As he went down, the rush from the direction of the village green came round the corner. The Invisible Man No. 3 in E is still on the village green, and the boys and girls are romping in the dance. Chopin : the Man and His Music I spent my time in wandering about, retracing the childish walks we used to take, looking at the church, the old houses, the village green, and the mill-pool. The Upton Letters But villainous faces had hovered on the outskirts of the village green, and ill-omened eyes had marked the beauty of Ninon and the spiritual face of her brother. From Jest to Earnest At last he rose and went to the little oriel, which commanded a view of the village green. Watersprings The house fronted the village green; and right before it stood an immemorial lime-tree benched all round, in some hidden recesses of whose leafy wealth hung the grim escutcheon of the Lennards. North and South They drive the Prussians out of Ligny; who, however, rally in the houses, churchyard, and village green. The Dynasts One October afternoon he had taken her out for a walk as usual, and they had sat down to rest on a bench under a wide-spreading chestnut tree overlooking a village green. Herb of Grace Already in America, men's minds had begun to turn to war, and on every village green the farmers might be seen drilling every evening. This Country of Ours There was also that old essential, a village green—a broad strip of sacred turf, that was everybody's by custom, though in strict law Vizard's. A Woman-Hater They halt on the village green, and each of the characters makes a speech in rhyme. The Golden Bough Half a mile beyond the village green to the north, close to the "rude bridge" of the famous Concord fight in 1775, is the Old Manse, once tenanted and described by Hawthorne. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters He said that it might till itself—he should manufacture some gorgeous fireworks, and exhibit them on the village green on the next 4th of July. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and Romances It isn't every one who has a village green to write about. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters The British rushed forward with huzzas, in the midst of which shots were heard; and when the little band of minutemen was dispersed eight of the fifty lay dead upon the village green. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England The tree stood on the village green the whole year through, until a fresh tree was brought in next May Day. The Golden Bough Walking straight up from the station, she crossed the village green and entered the long chestnut avenue that connects it with the church. Howards End Night closed in, and an immense concourse of people gathered on the village green. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and Romances Why stay in New York when I had a village green? The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters Walking straight up from the station, she crossed the village green and entered the long chestnut avenue that connects it with the church.� Howards End One of them is dressed as a king and dragged on a sledge to the village green, and if on the way they pass a pool the sledge is always overturned into it. The Golden Bough On the farther side was a village green with a fringe of cottages and one dark manor house upon the side of the hill. Sir Nigel A crazy sort of girl; used to sing French ballads on the village green to all the farm labourers she could collect. Fanny and the Servant Problem Some days later passing by the village green, he saw her entering a garden gate. The Patrician He would have chosen a secret way, but there was none, only the highroad, or the path across the village green, and through the churchyard to his paddocks. The Country House The two travellers, in tranquil solitude, took their seats under an old lime-tree on the village green. The Island Pharisees Such an excited shouting of admiration and calling on mithers to come and see the bonny wee dog was never before heard on Swanston village green. Greyfriars Bobby They harangued in every place of public resort, from the Chocolate House in Saint James's Street to the sanded kitchen of the alehouse on the village green. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Indeed, with the exception of the palm trees, the suburbs here have an aspect like that of a village green at home. The Naturalist on the River Amazons A scent of wood-smoke clung in the air; the cottages appeared, the forge, the little shops facing the village green. The Country House He had organized volunteer cycle companies of speakers from the towns, young working-men and women and students, to go out on summer evenings and hold meetings on the village greens. All Roads Lead to Calvary After the service on Sunday morning the people thronged to the village green, where ale flowed freely and games were played until the evening dance was called. Study of the King James Bible Yoho, beside the village green, where cricket players linger yet, and every little indentation made in the fresh grass by bat or wicket, ball or player's foot, sheds out its perfume on the night. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader Public amusements, from the masques which were exhibited at the mansions of the great down to the wrestling matches and grinning matches on village greens, were vigorously attacked. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 You burly lovers on the village green, Yours is a lower, and a happier star! Poems — Volume 1 As it is, half the world is dancing at Victory balls, exhibiting captured guns on every village green, and hanging father’s helmet above the mantelpiece; while the other half is nursing its revenge. All Roads Lead to Calvary He “shook the sermon out of his mind,” and went out to his sports with the Elstow lads on the village green, with as “great delight” as ever. The Life of John Bunyan He preached wherever he found opportunity, in woods, in barns, on village greens, or even in churches. The Life of John Bunyan Dancing, which from his boyhood he had practised on the village green, or in the old Moot Hall, was still harder to give up. The Life of John Bunyan |
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