What is "athels"

Usage examples of "athels".

In his panelled office at 6, Athelsgate in the City of London, as Sir Horace Malory picked up a silver paper-knife and slit the envelope, he found his hands were trembling .

Inside lay a further envelope and, paperclipped to it, a single sheet of paper upon which was written, 'To be delivered at once to the Senior Partner, Hillyard, Cleef, at 6, Athelsgate, E.

Mr Pratt liked to think of himself as a student of contrasting human behaviour, and it was fascinating to think of this grubby thug entering the refined portals of 6 Athelsgate.

Still, before he left 6 Athelsgate for Paddington and the Oxford train, the historian produced two further nuggets of information.

The historian had gone by now and his books with him, and Malory paced slowly up and down the room at 6 Athels-gate, while the ingredients boiled together in the cauldron of his brain.

If the gold price rose, a number of bars were taken from 6 Athelsgate to the Bank of England.

Malory informed the office of the Governor of the Bank of England of a probable and large liability and quite soon the Governor came round in person to 6 Athelsgate to hear the story and left, moaning softly to himself, to calculate compound interest at assorted rates on four hundred million for sixty-odd years.

An electronic code linked 6 Athelsgate to the safe-makers, Messrs Chubb, whose technicians alone could override the time lock which would shortly come into play.