 | American periodicals - 1855 - 846 pages
...times mentioned, (an arched door, choice little long low lattice-windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did an active stroke of work in Rochester, in the old days of the Romans, and the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 pages
...long, low, lattice- windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High street of Rochester is fall of gables, with old beams and timbers carved into...carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did an active stroke of work in Rochester, in the old days of the Romans, and the... | |
 | Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pages
...should also be noticed. The gilt Clock, which projects into the High Street, from the Corn Exchange, "as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign," was the gift of Sir Cloudesley Shovel (more than once Mayor of the city), 1706. The Town-hall above... | |
 | R. A. Hammond - Authors, English - 1871 - 450 pages
...times mentioned (an arched door), choice little long low lattice-windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...clock that projects over the pavement out of a grave red-brick building, as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874 - 766 pages
...times mentioned (an arched door), choice little long low lattice windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did an active stroke of work in Rochester, in the old days of the Romans, and the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 628 pages
...times mentioned (an arched door), choice little long low lattice-windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...clock that projects over the pavement out of a grave red-brick building, as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Kent (England) - 1877 - 398 pages
...should also be noticed. The gilt Clock, which projects into the High Street, from the old Corn Exchange, "as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign," was the gift of Sir Cloudesley Shovel imore than once Mayor of the city), 1706. The Town-hall beyond... | |
 | English literature - 1880 - 376 pages
...house, of a staid and venerable air, with choice little low lattice windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...clock that projects over the pavement out of a grave red-brick building, as if time carried on business there and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1880 - 878 pages
...times mentioned (an arched door), choice little long low lattice-windows, and a roof of three gables. The silent High Street of Rochester is full of gables,...clock that projects over the pavement out of a grave red-brick building, as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...is oddly garnished with a queer old clock that projects over the pavement out of a grave red-brick building, as if time carried on business there and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did an active stroke of work in Rochester, in the days of the Romans, and the Saxons,... | |
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... as if Time carried on business there, and hung out his sign. Sooth to say, he did an active stroke of work in Rochester, in the old days of the Romans, and the Saxons, and the Normans, and down to the times of King John, when the rugged castle —... 
