What is "broxton"

Usage examples of "broxton".

Adolphus Irwine, Rector of Broxton, Vicar of Hayslope, and Vicar of Blythe, a pluralist at whom the severest Church reformer would have found it difficult to look sour.

Irwine's sisters, as any person of family within ten miles of Broxton could have testified, were such stupid, uninteresting women!

But no one ever thought of mentioning the Miss Irwines, except the poor people in Broxton village, who regarded them as deep in the science of medicine, and spoke of them vaguely as "the gentlefolks.

He was quite sure everybody knew Thias Bede--didn't he make the wonderful pigeon-house at Broxton parsonage?

It was but about a mile and a half to Broxton over the opposite slope, and their road wound very pleasantly along lanes and across fields, where the pale woodbines and the dog-roses were scenting the hedgerows, and the birds were twittering and trilling in the tall leafy boughs of oak and elm.

But it is a time of leisure on the farm-- that pause between hay and corn-harvest, and so the farmers and labourers in Hayslope and Broxton thought the captain did well to come of age just then, when they could give their undivided minds to the flavour of the great cask of ale which had been brewed the autumn after "the heir" was born, and was to be tapped on his twenty-first birthday.

All Broxton and all Hayslope were to be at the Chase, and make merry there in honour of "th' heir".