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Usage examples of romney.

We were on our way to Romney and when we were in Malacs Cross an old woman thought I was you.

He sailed along the shore of his earldom, greeted as a hero, collecting more ships and men in all the harbours, Pevensey, Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Sandwich and Dover itself.

East of Romney, Folkestone and Dover had small usable harbours, and round the corner was Sandwich, which was a principal cross-Channel port and a base for the royal ships.

Harry Keywell remained in prison for two more years, until Governor Romney signed a commutation order.

The large casement window to his right was shut, and he could see no one outside on the lawn which sloped down to the dyke and the glebe field beyond, one which great Romney Marsh sheep were bleating to their young, for it was lambing time.

He oversaw other soldiers from Skurage and Romney and the Pithian Crossroads and Waterholm and elsewhere, all garrisoned here.

He flicked a finger, and every figure collapsed into a small paper doll, except the king, who was a white silk shirt on the floor, and Romney, who stood by quietly.

It is in the clay part of Kent, and my bungalow stood on the edge of an old sea cliff and stared across the flats of Romney Marsh at the sea.

Hornblower was reminded of Rye overlooking Romney Marsh, but Cette was a gloomy little town of a prevailing black colour, unlike Rye's cheerful grey and reds.

I finished my tomato juice and left the table and went across to the alcove to look at the water-colours: Romney Marsh.

The bicycle ride in such heat across Romney Marsh to this grand new villa of his on the Kentish coast left me quite wilted, but Wells's robust hospitality has quickly restored me.