A former large county in northern England

Usage examples of yorkshire.

Ramsay Kent, relocated Yorkshire baronet, geologist, and adopted Absarokee married to his aunt, Hazard studied geology under the noted Swiss naturalist Agassiz, who had been invited to deliver a course of lectures at Harvard in 1847, subsequently had been offered a chair, and had stayed.

Loath as Banks was to leave Yorkshire, especially after so recently buying the cottage, he was fast coming to admit that his days there seemed numbered.

As very considerable numbers of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire had been taught in Sunday-schools, and the Sabbath day was much regarded in that part of the country, the collection of such a vast concourse of persons from great distances, on a day so sacred, created prejudices against the chartist confederacies even in their own strongholds, which, irrespective of every other difficulty, ensured their defeat.

Sir Hugh, though he had passed a wretched night, was now somewhat better, and considerably cheared, by a visit from his old Yorkshire friend, Mr.

Systems may be changing, but cows and calves and Yorkshire farmers were just the same.

North Yorkshire, where he worked, down to a Royal Navy facility near Gosport, Hampshire.

Oleic acid a by-product of the candle industry, is extensively used under the name of cloth oil, there is also used oleine, or wool oil, obtained by the distillation of Yorkshire grease.

Opposite to him stood the gentle Quakeress, in her plain garment of grey Yorkshire frieze with its spotless deep collar and close-fitting cap of snowy lawn.

It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also.

Mollie was born in a grand house in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, delivered by the village midwife, so the story goes, with old Tom boiling up kettles of water and only an oil lamp to light the room.

He informed the company, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, that he did a bit in furniture, and at first starting these brokers buzzed about him like flies, and pestered him.

When we moved to Yorkshire, hoping to start anew, I put the alicorn away for good.

It was at Sheffield, in the county of Yorkshire, already famous in the annals of crime as the county of John Nevison and Eugene Aram, that Peace first saw the light.

Yorkshire family, the most eligible of bachelors, and one who had been born with a golden spoon in his mouth, the money to buy himself the world if he wanted.

I was telling her quietly in my rusty Spanish about the bluebells I used to look for in the Yorkshire woods.