What is "malvern"

Usage examples of "malvern".

Dissensions among Southern leaders - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Conscription begins - Abuse of Jefferson Davis - The battle of Shiloh - Beauregard flanked at Nashville - Old Colonel Chesnut again - New Orleans lost - The battle of Williamsburg - Dinners, teas, and breakfasts - Wade Hampton at home wounded - Battle of the Chickahominy - Albert Sidney Johnston's death - Richmond in sore straits - A wedding and its tragic ending - Malvern Hill - Recognition of the Confederacy in Europe .

Malvern intercepted his hand half way through its trajectory however, deflected it and twisted and locked the wrist unnaturally, causing Tennys to howl and contort himself downwards, his shoulder screeching, feeling like his hand had just come off.

My dead mother's sister, Aunt Susan (and her husband Harry) who had reluctantly agreed to bring me up, had felt affronted, and said so bitterly and often, when my father plucked me out of the comprehensive school that had been 'good enough' for her four sons, and insisted that I take diction lessons and extra tuition in maths, my best subject, and had by one way or another seen to it that I spent five years of intensive learning in a top fee-paying school, Malvern College.

Ye Ed passed it on to Kipper for comment, and he, remembering the dark days at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, when he and I were plucking the gowans fine there, slated it with no uncertain hand.

Lee led his forces in a brilliant offensive against the always-cautious McClellan, launching daring attacks at Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Savage's Station, Frayser's Farm, and Malvern Hill.

Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.