English county known for its cider and Cheddar cheese

Usage examples of somerset.

Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.

They were confirmed in this opinion, when they found that a bill, ratifying the attainder of Somerset and his accomplices, was also rejected by the commons, though it had passed the upper house.

He conferred on him the whole estate of William Peverell, which had escheated to the crown: he put him in possession of eight castles, with all the forests and honors annexed to them: he delivered over to him no less than six earldoms, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Nottingham, Dorset, Lancaster and Derby.

Her Majestie gratiously accepted of my few lynes of thankfulnes delivered unto her by the Cowntess of Warwik hora secunda a meridie at Hampton Court, two or three dayes before the remove to Somerset Howse.

One may forfeit everything else, but one must be free--one must not become 7, Pinchbeck Street--or Somerset Drive--or Shortlands.

I made up my mind at once, got a light one-horse sleigh up in the village, rigged it with all my bear-skins, good store of whiskey, eatables, and so forth, saddled the gray with my best Somerset, holsters and surcingle attached, and made one of the party on the instant.

Harry Tasker had examined the official copy of the will at Somerset House.

Mr Dill, will perhaps want to consult Green Undertakings of Watchet in Somerset, since that village is such a famous poetic landmark!

Having no talent for the sword, not being a man of my hands as my brother John of Somerset wasmay God assoil himI decided I must use my brain.

They picked me up at Heathrow, and we drove across the moors to Somerset and the family ancestral home on the west bank of the Parrett River, near where it empties into the sea.

City for water to be laid on to Stronde House, afterwards known as Somerset House.

Sir James Eckert, Baron de Bois de Malencontri in the Shire of Somerset.

Somerset was well apprised of all these alarming circumstances, and endeavored, by the most friendly expedients, by entreaty, reason, and even by heaping new favors upon the admiral, to make him desist from his dangerous counsels: but finding all endeavors ineffectual, he began to think of more severe remedies.

Here, to this middle-of-nowhere Somerset village where the mill-wheel creaked with age above the millrace and the apple scent of cider welled up from the cellars down below.

Somerset Maugham and discusses Salvadorian politics as well as her Kellogg cereal contract.