"Townes" Quotes from Famous Books
... in all those places where he came. And know it for certeine that since this warre began against the French king, he had never such losse or destruction as he hath had in this journie; for the countries and good townes which were wasted in this journie found to the King of France everie yeare more to the maintainance of his warre than half his realme hath ... — Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... many and dyvers townes and portes by the see side have in tymes past bene in great welthe and prosperitie well buylded by using and exercysing the crafts and feate of fisshing by the whiche practise it was not onelie great strengthe to this Realme by reason of bringing ... — The Story of Newfoundland • Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead |