English subdivision

Usage examples of shire.

He would like to see the justice of the peace, or magistrate, who would fine a knight of the shire, or independent member of an independent borough, who in the morning might possibly be brought before him in a state presenting a good imitation of the odious and ungodly crime of drunkenness, which called down the wrath of the moral legislators of the age of King James.

Cranford above once or twice since - once, when I was walking with Miss Matty, in High Street, and suddenly she darted from me, and went up Shire Lane.

Steering in among the skerries Olaf made a landing on the island of Moster, in the shire of Hordaland.

The larger, elder man was Sir Aonghas Dubh, Chief of that ilk, Regulus of the Isles, Earl of Ross, and Earl of Inverness Shire.

Addresses against the treaty were presented to parliament by the convention of boroughs, the commissioners of the general assembly, the company trading to Africa and the Indies, as well as from several shires, stewartries, boroughs, towns, and parishes, in all the different parts of the kingdom, without distinction of whig or tory, episcopalian or presbyterian.

For myself I want a horse, friend Tappet, for snow or no I must sleep in the next shire.

Altogether it was a very unprincely individual who roamed those peril-haunted shires of England.

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

To Earl Erik were to be given all the shires along the western coast from Finmark to Lindesness, with the exception of seven shires allotted to Olaf the Swede King.

Willoughby is a considerable village in this shire, situated about three miles and a half southeastward from Alford.

For generations, the earls of Westmorland and Northumberland have ruled in their respective shires like petty kings.

Yamazaki and Blackwell about knowing that Alison Shires was going to try to commit suicide, and now they must think he could see the future.

England was divided into earldoms, earldoms into shires and shires into hundreds.

Shires, glimpsed first as animated headshots, five months into his time at Slitscan, had been a rather ordinarily attractive girl murmuring her stats to imagined casting directors, agents, someone, anyone.

In declaring war upon local jurisdictions, whether of clergy, or nobles, or burghers, or independent shire courts, Henry was defying all the traditions and convictions of his age,--an age when local feeling was a force which we are now quite unable to measure.