"Master of the World" director William

Usage examples of witney.

Soon Witney and I were busy elsewhere with hacksaw and medium chisel, attaching a farcically mangled leg to an unknown and shrouded figure, at the thigh, in a kind of rain of blood, a snow of bone.

And by his bed covered with the same dark green Witney that I have on my bed in a silver frame: my Mum and Dad.

I attended a young lady in a chaise to Witney, where we staid all night, and in our return, the next morning, to Oxford, I met one of my cronies, who acquainted me with sufficient news concerning myself to make me turn my horse another way.

But as things stood at present, more trainers than Mark Witney were sending their horses elsewhere.

I judged that Mark Witney would be back in his house after exercising his second lot of horses, I rang him up and asked him to lend me his hack, a pensioned-off old steeplechaser of the first water.

Tobias had taught him his letters, and arranged for him to attend the Witney school, where he boarded with the parson.

Oxford, and in those three years he had strayed far from the Witney school and the precepts of Tobias.

He was a careful gentleman, for Brother Tobias was sent to Wychwood to spread the news, so that those who had sat by Peter on the benches of Witney school might spare a sigh for a lost companion.

The sheets were as fine as silk, and the Chalons blankets as soft as fur--far different from the rude Witney fabric which had hitherto been his only covering.

You saw me on the Witney road with the prisoner, riding like one possessed.

At the said gate a band of west-country clothiers were setting out, hoping to lie the night at Witney, so as to make Gloucester on the morrow.

Not one of them seemed to be absent--Drury, Midwinter, Cely, Bartholomew, Grevel, Hicks, Marner, Tame, Sylvester, Whittington--representing every stone town from Stroud to Witney, from Fairford on Thames to Stratford on Avon.

Dickon to Avelard, having been delayed at Little Greece till his new suit arrived from the Witney tailor.

Rissington, and about the time when Mother Sweetbread was bearing food and clothing down the hill, had come by way of Sherborne to the great heath which lined the highway between Witney and Gloucester, the main road to the west.

As he crossed the forest road from Charlbury to Witney he saw that it was puddled with fresh hoof marks.