What is "amherst"

Usage examples of "amherst".

Judson and her infant daughter in the house of the civil superintendent at Amherst, he proceeded to the Burman capital.

The very gesture with which she tied her bonnetstrings, preparatory to one of her nun-like walks in her garden at Amherst, must have had something dreamy and Emersonian in it.

Amherst intellectuals begging you to save them from creeping faggotry by permitting them to stick their carrots in your sticky little slit?

Niagara had fallen before the English, and the forts on Lake Champlain were abandoned to Amherst.

Martaban river were to be ceded to the English, it seemed wise to take advantage of the reputation which the Judsons had established to found a mission-station under their protection in the new town of Amherst, which Sir Archibald Campbell proposed to build on the banks of the Martaban river.

The place fixed upon as the seat of government in the newly acquired British territory in Burmah, was Amherst, on the Martaban river, about 75 miles eastward of Rangoon.

Amherst pheasants to five shillings that she refuses to have me as a partner at the croquet tournament.

At Amherst too, as in a pair of recent Russian cases and others, there was plenty of fire-raising.

Notary Public in New York, testified to the following story:- In 1879 he was acting with a strolling company, and came to Amherst, in Nova Scotia.

This story is narrated with an amiable simplicity, and is backed, more or less, by extracts from Amherst and other local newspapers.

Magnificent Amherst pheasants, whose plumage challenged and almost shamed the peacock on his own ground, stepped to and fro over the emerald turf with the assured self-conscious pride of reigning sultans.

Yes, a horse like Old Clay, is worth the whole seed, breed and generation, of them Amherst beasts put together.

The weekend was crammed with social events, cocktails on Saturday evening at the home of Jon and Nanci Rindfleisch on Brompton Road, our pig-roast buffet held this year at the Pifers' in Amherst Dells, and a postmidnight swim and all-night disco at Willowsville Mayor Hewson's house on Mill Race Lane, Sunday morning a champagne brunch at a.

In a horn-honking flotilla of shiny cars we would wend our way to Leroux Pifer's home in Amherst Dells three and three-quarters miles as, years ago, after football and basketball victories, we would wend our way through Willowsville wild and intoxicated and disturbing the peace, doubting the peace was ours to disturb.

She was standing at the edge of the Pifers' elegant redwood deck cantilevered over a sparkling-waterfall ravine in the portaled, privately policed Village of Amherst Dells, due west of the Village of Willowsville, gazing at us, her old classmates, with a look of defiance, and deference.