Tony-winning play set during the time of Henry II

Usage examples of becket.

These boons were offset, however, by a new delegation summoning Becket and the king again to arbitrament of their grievances, and setting Ascension Day as the term of papal leniency.

Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.

On the long artificial lake, with innumerable rushy nooks and water-lilies and coverture of leaves floating flat and bright in the sun, the halftame wild duck and shy water-hens had remote little worlds, and flew and splashed when all Becket was abed, quite as if the human spirit, with its monkey-tricks and its little divine flame, had not yet been born.

On the day after Christmas, as if to defy anathema, he himself fulminated a fearful decree of banishment against all the kith and kin of Becket, male and female, old and young.

Becket might reclaim his see and lead his exiles home, if, when, and after the bishops of England were freed from excommunication and his lands from the menaces of interdict.

Norman choir of the minster, had the support of the king, who was engaged in the struggle with Becket.

Bledsoe that Widow Becket would do well to have a care for her reputation, for more than one trustworthy person had seen her traipsing carelessly about Mayfair, unescorted, in the company of Lord Connery!

Thus it was that I was to be found, on a hot morning in mid-June, laboring sweatily up a steep but modest eminence called Becket Mountain, in a haze of repellent-resistant blackflies, and patting my pocket from time to time to check that my knife was still there.

Mrs Harrowcot and Mrs Becket from Bacon Buildings went into the workhouse, and one young man from Dockhead took his two children along to the market in Southwark Park Road and offered them for sale.

Of gardeners, keepers, cow-men, chauffeurs, footmen, stablemen--full twenty were supported on those fifteen hundred acres that formed the little Becket demesne.

It was in great measure from a wish to sweep the fees of the Church courts into the royal Hoard that the second Henry began the strife with Becket in the Constitutions of Clarendon, and the increase of revenue was the efficient cause of the great reforms of justice which form the glory of his reign.

But even so, I believe I shall set up a couple of beckets, with an in-and-out turn over the hounds .

He was extremely reluctant to cut the line, both on principle and because silk was a treacherous stuff to splice, and in time he had woven the whole into a spider's web, an extraordinarily intricate piece of rigging with cunning knots, stoppers and beckets, the whole designed to concentrate two men's strength on the raising of the left-hand side of the farther slab: although he was never still, to a watcher his work seemed endless, needlessly finical, obscure.

But even so, I believe I shall set up a couple of beckets, with an in-and-out turn over the hounds.

He went back to the wheel and took the speaking trumpet from its beckets — the freshening wind made that necessary.