English county

Usage examples of shropshire.

Your two uncles shall be witnesses and my dear aide Orlando Bridgeman, who, being from Shropshire, is acquainted with your family will stand guard outside to make sure that the Prime Minister does not try to stop the ceremony.

From these caverns leapt the motive force of a dispensary in Chemnitz, a glasshouse in Shropshire, a callbox in Billings, Montana.

He was still eyeing me with an air of appraisal, as though I were a prime entrant in the Silver Medalist Round at the Shropshire Fat Pigs Show.

Shropshire Light Infantry sang uproariously, the assembled mems added their fluted accompaniment and Joe was out in the sunshine once more.

At dawn upon May 1st the fighting was resumed, and the position was carried by a determined advance of the Shropshires, the Canadians, and the Gordons: the Boers escaping down the reverse slope of the hill came under a heavy fire of our infantry, and fifty of them were wounded or taken.

The same body of burghers immediately afterwards attacked a post held by Colonel Evans with two companies of the Shropshires and fifty Canadians.

The fighting fell principally upon Pole-Carew and Hutton, the corps chiefly engaged being the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the New Zealanders, the Shropshires, and the Canadian Mounted Infantry.

The town of Belfast was strongly held by Smith-Dorrien, with 1750 men, of which 1300 were infantry belonging to the Royal Irish, the Shropshires, and the Gordons.

There are three branches of the Bassington-Bassington family - the Shropshire Bassington-Bassingtons, the Hampshire Bassington-Bassingtons, and the Kent Bassington-Bassingtons.

Ford, of Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, from iron-ore and coal, both got in the same dale, makes iron brittle or tough as he pleases, there being cannon thus cast so soft as to bear turning like wrought-iron.

Go into the Court of Chancery yonder, and ask what is one of the standing jokes that brighten up their business sometimes, and they will tell you that the best joke they have is the man from Shropshire.

A Shropshire Lad I could read back home in front of the fire, with a cup of hot cocoa.

Now every town, even a quite modest one, has a mile or more of fast-food places, motor inns, discount cities, shopping malls-all with thirty-foot-high revolving signs and parking lots the size of Shropshire.

Of how, according to a second long statement by Bradlaw, this had taken the ingenious form of the supposed illness and sudden death of the principal, his secret removal to a rural retreat in Shropshire, and the burial of his firm’.

Brochwel walks down the Salop Road -- so called because it comes from Shropshire and is thus Salopian -- and looks at the humble shop where, a lifetime ago, Walter Gilmartin and Janet and their children, and as many Jenkinses and other Gilmartins as could thrust themselves through the easy door, had played out their domestic tragedy, or melo­drama, or farce, or whatever you choose to call it.