Pub quarrel in northern town

Usage examples of barrow.

Others had entered the hall whilst the two men were speakinga gaggle of clan maids wheeling a laundry barrow and two ancient oasters from the brewhouse who stank of yeastand all eased back against the walls, sensing the tension in the entryway as livestock sensed a storm.

He remembered towards the end seeing Brough with a barrow and some tools passing across the drive towards the lodge, though because of a hedge in the way he could not see exactly where he went with them.

A great barrow was raised to the north of the city, and Buri was laid to rest within it, seated and facing north.

An ice spear had caught Lady Merlion in the back as she ran towards the Barrow, and now protruded in jagged red-tipped spikes from her belly and breast.

He heard the Prince of Barrow through, hummed a line of some obscure monody, his patched eyebrows scaling his brow, then disappeared without excuse.

He cleaned the pens, filled the barrow, ran with it to the place where the droppings were left.

Campion, Superintendent Luke, and Detective Sergeant Picot from the Barrow Road station, in whose division they were not operating, were listening to Miss Rich.

Sergeant Picot placed a cup of nice black tea on the desk where Luke sat writing in the office which had once been his own in the Barrow Road station.

To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and Marvell.

The ferocious intolerances of the pre-liberal world have been left behind - it is inconceivable now that a Henry Barrow would be executed, or a Henry Garnet, or that the Scrooby Separatists would have been forced to leave home and country - and perhaps as a result of that change, perhaps as a symptom, religion, or at least the conventional religion of ordinary people, has been drained of its passion.

The vegetable-sellers, the organ-grinders, the woman practising her scales, the man playing the trombone, had all trundled away their barrows, pulled down their shutters, and closed the lids of their pianos.

Here were stored Arabian secrets uncynical and sensate, books tattooed in pain-ink, buds turning open, suburb flagstones, broken-down gardens, a tin barrow red hot in the sun, insects in the dusk-fluctuating wind flying against shallow water, a mind where river floor scenes flutter unseen, all in the worming walls of the Keep.

Barrow, the anxious wife of the confidential clerk to Major Vinton, the staunch Union officer in charge of the pay and quartermaster services.

The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth and Gilian Barrow balanced above the stream of gold.

In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.