What is "waltham"

Usage examples of "waltham".

Everyone at White Waltham chatted onwards and agreed that the weathermen had nine, or better, twenty-nine lives.

But Harold grew up with at least a respect for learning: the abbey he founded and endowed at Waltham in Essex was not a monastic establishment but a secular college.

Miracles come into the story now and then, and remind one that its people had a direct uncomplicated faith: the Vita Haroldi Regis, written by a humble monk of Waltham Abbey in 1216, records that Harold spent a sleepless night, kept awake by the pain in his leg and the dread that he felt too sick to lead the long march to Northumbria.

Even at Waltham two or three days before, the canons could scarcely have ministered to a man under such a sentence.

A few friends came with him who knew what had happened and still believed in him: Gyrth and his brother Leofwine, his nephew Hakon whom he had rescued from Normandy, two canons from Waltham already nervous at the miracle they had seen, two aged and respected abbots who carried chain mail to wear above their habits, and—perhaps at a distance—Edith Svanneshals the mother of his sons.

The story is told in the Vita Haroldi written by a monk of Waltham itself in 1216.

He greeted me at White Waltham with what I knew from experience to be super-charged happiness.

This Piper aeroplane, though, unlike Kris's own Cherokee at White Waltham, this luxurious little transport did have all sorts of electronic capabilities, so while Kris did all his remaining checks meticulously, I read the slim instruction booklet on how to navigate by radio transmissions.

Go on, say it, I didn't do that check again as we hadn't come far from White Waltham - like I didn't check the oil that day for coming home from Newmarket.

He greeted me at White Waltham with what I knew from experience to be supercharged happiness.

This Piper airplane, though, unlike Kris's own Cherokee at White Waltham, this luxurious little transport did have all sorts of electronic capabilities, so while Kris did all his remaining checks meticulously, I read the slim instruction booklet on how to navigate by radio transmissions.

Every one at White Waltham chatted onwards and agreed that the weathermen had nine, or better, twenty-nine lives.

It was true that you could see Greenham Common from a long way off, but on a fine day it would anyway have been difficult to lose the way from White Waltham to Newbury.

I landed at White Waltham before Colin arrived back from Windsor, and the other four yawned and gossiped, opening all the doors and fanning themselves.

I am trainee-assistant William Waltham, just arrived at this Residency yesterday.