A largely agricultural county in central England

Usage examples of leicester.

As Sir Leicester basks in his library and dozes over his newspaper, is there no influence in the house to startle him, not to say to make the very trees at Chesney Wold fling up their knotted arms, the very portraits frown, the very armour stir?

Sir Leicester is not particular what it is and does not appear to follow it very closely, further than that he always comes broad awake the moment Volumnia ventures to leave off, and sonorously repeating her last words, begs with some displeasure to know if she finds herself fatigued.

Rutland not only bred Border Leicesters but had a prize herd of Charolais cattle.

Inside with the doors closed June rather sheepishly repeated the story of her mistake and the consequences in Leicester.

Two of his horses were certainly down to run, but Filmer himself almost never went to the midland courses of Nottingham, Leicester or Wolverhampton.

Elizabeth had therefore decided to bestow honors on him and he was to be made Earl of Leicester and Baron of Denbigha title which had never been used by anyone but a royal personageand the estates of Kenilworth and Astel Grove were to be his.

Similar houses were to be found in towns as far apart as Middlesbrough, Darlington, York, Leicester, Brighton, Swindon and Kidderminster, as well as the outer suburbs of London.

These are the Southdown, and the Cotswold, Leicester, or other improved breeds of long-wooled sheep.

French breeds, your Swaledales and your Mashams and your Leicesters with the low gates.

She would be aided by the silks from her workbag and samples of textiles that Dougherty fetched for her from Leicester.

Next evening, down come Sir Leicester and my Lady with their largest retinue, and down come the cousins and others from all the points of the compass.

George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fightingmen, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.

In Leicester Square the passage of a Personage between two stations blocked the traffic, and on the footways were gathered a crowd of simple folk with much in their hearts and little in their stomachs, who raised a cheer as the Personage passed.

Sir Leicester Dedlock is with my Lady and is happy to see Mr. Tulkinghorn.

Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, presents his compliments to Mr. Lawrence Boythorn, and has to call his attention to the fact that the green pathway by the old parsonage-house, now the property of Mr.