East Anglian county

Usage examples of norfolk.

There was also an industrialist in Norfolk, Virginia, named John Hughes Curtis, head of a boatbuilding company.

As a boy, he had coaxed the local vicar into teaching him Hebrew, which was the only Middle Eastern language available in the wilds of Norfolk, but while his knowledge had endeared him to the Bokharan Jews, he had never sung for them.

In 1740 Hobart became lord-lieutenant of Norfolk and in 1746 earl of Buckinghamshire, his sister, Henrietta Howard, countess of Suffolk, being the mistress of George II.

A three-tiered pearl eardrop, the mate to the other the Duchess of Norfolk had given her years ago during the Twelve Days of Christmas--Catherine Howard was queen then, briefly.

Davies on the quay, bareheaded and wearing his old Norfolk jacket and stained grey flannels, as at our first meeting in Flensburg station.

Admiral Sir Paul Bigod and a sizable portion of his Royal Navy, the Norfolk Squadron was beating down toward Cape Penas and the Port of Gijon, which lay a little alee of that promontory.

Now, in company with Admiral Sir Paul Bigod and a sizable portion of his Royal Navy, the Norfolk Squadron was beating down toward Cape Penas and the Port of Gijon, which lay a little alee of that promontory.

The granduncle is a diamond merchant, with contacts, of course, in his native city, but it seems he has a house in North Norfolk and an office in Hatton Garden.

For the past several years, both Hendon and Smeaton have remained buried in Norfolk, and their only links in town are either purely social or purely commercial.

They move shipments up the Intracoastal through the Dismal Swamp Canal and into Norfolk.

They move shipments up the Intracoastal through the Dismal Swamp Canal and into Norfolk .

In a word, if Vancouver had not gone up as far as Norfolk Sound or Sitka, the Russian fur traders would have drowsed on with Kadiak as headquarters, and Canada to-day might have included the entire gold-fields of Alaska.

Infantry Brigade on the left attacked with the 9th Norfolk Regiment and the 1st Leicestershire Regiment.

Mosul, 19, 113, 118 Mushaidiyeh, 19, 21, 27, 28, 148 Nagpur, Bishop of, 51, 108 Nahrwan Canal, 146 Nasiriyeh, 15 Newitt, Captain, 38, 125 Norfolks, 150 Opis, 105, 145, 147 Otter, Sec-Lieut.

Anyone who knows them will understand why a Norfolk nurserymaid when taken to Grasmere complained that she felt unable to breathe and that the mountains spoilt the view.