"Worcester" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great prelates," the smith agreed. "Look at Lyfing of Worcester, to whom next only to Godwin the king owed his throne. He was an Englishman first and a bishop afterwards, and was a proof, if needed, that a man can be a great churchman and a great patriot and statesman too. It was he rather than Godwin who overcame the opposition of the Danish ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... its rose-red walls, an exhalation of the Middle Ages, on a steep declivity among the mountainous woods of Wales—woods full of deer and bracken. Much of its painted paneling had never been, when I stayed there, touched or renovated since the time of the battle of Worcester. In a bedroom which had once been occupied by Charles I there was hardly a piece of furniture which was not coeval with himself. The dining room, as I remember it, had been frescoed by a Dutch artist in the reign ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock
... of Charles Kingsley, was born at Barnack, Northamptonshire, England, Jan. 2, 1830. Leaving Worcester College, Oxford, in 1853, he, with a number of fellow-students, emigrated to the Australian goldfields. After some five years of unremunerative toil he returned to England, poor in pocket, but possessing sufficient knowledge ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... A Relation of the Discovery of Our River From James Forte into the Maine, Made by Captain Christopher Newport. Worcester, 1860. ...
— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton
... to Holy Cross, The sturdy towers look down, And show a kindly word to all Who pass by Worcester Town; And once you'd see the boys at play, Or marching ...
— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls
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