Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 106
Land area (2000): 0.479418 sq. miles (1.241688 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.479418 sq. miles (1.241688 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04247
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.728579 N, 90.908144 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62314
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Baylis
Wikipedia
Baylis may refer to:
Baylis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jearld Baylis, a star defensive lineman in the Canadian Football League
- Julie Baylis, wife of The Honourable Jeremy Lascelles
- Keith Baylis (born 1947), English former cricketer
- Lilian Baylis (1874–1937), British theatrical producer, manager and founder of a ballet company
- Nick Baylis FRSA (based in Cambridge, England) loosely describes himself as a well-being explorer
- Trevor Baylis (born 1937), English inventor of the windup radio
Usage examples of "baylis".
The two gentlemen retired to the Colonel's study as soon as he had arrived and didn't emerge until it was almost time to have lunch, when they joined Mrs Baylis and Celine in the drawing room.
The Colonel said nothing, he ate his meals almost in silence and then went back to his books, and Mrs Baylis said hopefully: "Well, it was a splendid idea, darling, I'm sure someone will come soon.
They also commented upon the dreary paintings on the walls, and long-dead Baylises stared back at them haughtily.
Colonel and Mrs Baylis, Barney, Angela Mrs Seymour and Mr Seymour, who was lying on the floor unconscious.
He shook hands with Mrs Baylis and the Colonel, but he only smiled again at Celine and waved a casual hand, so that she didn't go to the door with them, but stayed sitting in her chair.
The Colonel, wandering through the hall, had met them and been so taken with the old gentleman that he had produced a good claret to go with their meal and after dinner had strolled with him through the gardens, while Mrs Baylis and his wife chatted pleasantly in the drawing room.
Staff Sergeant George Baylis, the glider pilot who had brought his dancing pumps to Holland because he believed the Dutch loved to dance, was “winkled out” of a camouflaged slit trench in a garden by German soldiers.
Ignoring his questioner, Baylis calmly took out a hand mirror and examining his grimy, unshaven face, asked the German, “You don’t happen to know if there’s a dance in town tonight, do you?