 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 486 pages
...ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped gradually clown on all sides to a level bottom, which was enclosed...mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 692 pages
...straggling oak-trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if faehioped on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides to n level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 674 pages
...straggling oaktrees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 574 pages
...straggling oak-trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...straggling oak-trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order... | |
 | Coleman E. Bishop - 1883 - 384 pages
...morning to the place of combat. The scene was singularly romantic. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 280 pages
...immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display, sloped gradually down to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists...quarter of a mile in length and about half as broad. 2. Gradually the galleries became filled with knights and nobles in their robes of peace, their long... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pages
...straggling oak trees, some of which had grown to an immense size. 3. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was inclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1886 - 388 pages
...which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial dis play which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides...mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off in order... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 182 pages
...straggling oak-trees, s some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped...strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a 10 mile in length, and about half as broad. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that... | |
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... some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a... 
