"Wey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and principal parts and conjugations, and county towns. Every county had a county town, and it was always on a river. Mr. Sandsome never allowed us a town without that colophon. I remember in my early manhood going to Guildford on the Wey, and trying to find that unobtrusive rivulet. I went over the downs for miles. It is not only the Wey I have had a difficulty in finding. There are certain verses—Heaven help me, but I have forgotten them!—about "i vel e dat" (was it ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells
... a noble chalk promontory, remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas. The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun, running to Arundel, and so falling into the British Channel: the other to the north. The Selborne stream makes one branch of the Wey; and meeting the Black-down stream at Hedleigh, and the Alton and Farnham stream at Tilford-bridge, swells into a considerable river, navigable at Godalming; from whence it passes to Guildford, and so into the Thames at Weybridge; and thus ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White
... men which were in the Flyboate were throwen from the Capstone, which by meanes of a barre that brake, came so fast about them, that the other two barres thereof strooke and hurt most of them so sore, that some of them neuer recouered it; neuerthelesse they assayed presently againe to wey their anker, but being so weakened with the first fling, they were not able to weye it, but were throwen downe and hurt the second time. Wherefore hauing in all but fifteene men aboord, and most of them by this vnfortunate beginning ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... chief of a meteorological station ventured on a decided answer to this question, notwithstanding the sarcasms that his solution provoked. This was a Chinaman, the director of the observatory at Zi-Ka-Wey which rises in the center of a vast plateau less than thirty miles from the sea, having an immense horizon and wonderfully pure atmosphere. "It is possible," said he, "that the object was ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
... ryde; The chambres and the stables{7} weren wyde, And wel we wern esed att beste. And schortly, whan the sonn was to reste, So hadde I spoken with hem everychon, That I was of here felaweschipe anon, And mad forward erly for to ryse, To take our wey ther as I yow devyse. But nathles, whil I have tyme and space, Or{8} that I forther in this tal pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To tell yow al the condicioun{9} Of eche of hem, so as it semede me, And whiche they weren, and of what degre; And eek in what array that they were inne: ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... Martin, you that say you will spawne out Your brawling brattes, in euery towne to dwell, We will provide in each place for your route, A bell and whippe that Apes do loue so well. And if yo skippe, and will not wey the checke, We 'il haue a springe, and catche you by ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... sea-front of the Isle of Wight; the monkey-plant, originally a Chilian flower, has run wild in many boggy spots in England and Wales; and a North American balsam, seldom cultivated even in cottage gardens, has managed to establish itself in profuse abundance along the banks of the Wey about Guildford and Godalming. One little garden linaria, at first employed as an ornament for hanging-baskets, has become so common on old walls and banks as to be now considered a mere weed, and exterminated accordingly by fashionable gardeners. ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... also of the Wey, near Guildford, in a place called Pease Marsh, a wedge-shaped flint implement, resembling one brought from St. Acheul by Mr. Prestwich, and compared by some antiquaries to a sling-stone, was obtained in 1836 by Mr. Whitburn, 4 feet deep in sand and gravel, in ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell |
