| 单词 | shire town |
| 例句 | The bunting is up and pork pies ordered across the "shire towns", says the Financial Times, as people prepare to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Eurozone, Eurovision and Jubilee 2012-05-26T05:26:45Z The first stopping-place was Geelong, on the sheltered coast of Port Phillip, once a rival to Melbourne for the honour of being the capital of Victoria, now a marine base, and prosperous shire town. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z I lived in Dedham, the shire town of Norfolk county, and was secretary of a Whig club there. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The place might be a bit taken out of any shire town of the British home island, were it only a little more cleanly and less unsavory; still it is more English than West Indian. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z By holding an open court in all the shire towns, they had given to every man on the island, however poor, an opportunity to explain his grievances, if he had any. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z This is a shire town, and a court is in session here, which brings many distinguished members of the legal profession to the place. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z Fotheringay is in Northamptonshire, which is in the very heart of England, Northampton, the shire town, being about sixty miles northwest of London. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History From thence our next move was to Waukesha, the shire town of Waukesha County, twenty miles by rail, to a Temperance meeting advertised for "speaking and the transaction of business." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Wilkesbarre is the shire town of Luzerne county, Pa. It is situated in the Wyoming valley, one hundred and fourteen miles northeast from Harrisburg, and one hundred and twenty northwest from Philadelphia. Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution “So have I,” agreed the attorney, a lawyer who had obeyed a telegram and had joined the Craig expedition at the shire town of the county the night before. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Woodbury looks more like an England shire town than any other in Connecticut. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. It was never a shire town or the site of a great religious house, and it owed little to its position as the head of a feudal lordship, or as a military post. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The shire town is that in which the court-house and other county buildings are situate, and where the principal officers of the county transact their business. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Two men from the shire town, wearing the nickel badges of deputy sheriffs, stood at the foot of the stairs. The Ramrodders A Novel “I’m from the shire town and I’m attorney for the Comas corporation.” Joan of Arc of the North Woods This was about forty miles west of Albany on the north bank of the Mohawk river and near the site of the present shire town of Montgomery county. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam For some years past the Dorchester adventurers—a small company of merchants in the shire town of Dorset—had been sending vessels to catch fish off the New England coast. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty It was the shire town of the county, and being the largest place in the neighborhood, country people for miles around traded at its stores. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success There were many people in the streets of the shire town. Darrel of the Blessed Isles The town in which these buildings are placed is called, as in England, the shire town. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins This is particularly true when they are held for short terms in a country shire town. The American Judiciary The taste and wealth and patriotism of this flourishing shire town were unitedly and spontaneously put in requisition to prepare due honors for the "nation's guest." Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. And every man went into his own shire town, there to be taxed. The first New Testament printed in English This was on the site of the present village of Cooperstown, but just twenty years anterior to the commencement of the pretty little shire town that now exists on the spot. Wyandotte This county court usually met as often as once a month in some convenient spot answering to the shire town of England or New England. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins Society in the place was patriarchal as an English shire town. The Iron Game A Tale of the War It was a pleasant spin along the good roads, in the fresh morning air, near the beach, to Wailuku, the shire town of the island, two or three miles distant. Time and Change I propose to start at once for the shire town. When Egypt Went Broke Edgar is the best seaport, and the shire town, and as its soil is light and sandy, many of its inhabitants follow the example of the people of Nantucket. Letters from an American Farmer I heard about it when I was over to the shire town. When Egypt Went Broke It was directly after breakfast on the morning following Mr. Harnden's return from the shire town. When Egypt Went Broke |
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