"Britten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men were a sleepe, his enemy came and oversowed Cockle among the wheate, and went his way."—Rheims Trans., 1582. For further early references to Cockle or Darnel see note on "Darnelle" in the "Catholicon Anglicum," p. 90, and Britten's ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... Proprietor of Pensylvania; it is a very ancient family in Buckinghamshire. This family in North Wilts had heretofore a dependence on the Abbey of Malmesbury as stewards or officers. [Sir William Penn was buried in Redcliffe Church, Bristol. See Britten's Account of Redcliffe ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... in Britten," said I, hastily. "Thanks, old man. He will work it out of me. Sorry we can't have ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... when I first knew Fauny she was getting thirty bob a week in "The Boys of Boulogne," and, as she paid me three pound ten every Saturday, and the car cost her some four hundred per annum to run, she must have been of a saving disposition. Certainly a better mistress no man wants—not Lal Britten, which is yours truly. I drove her for five months, and never had a word with her. Then a man, who said he was a bailiff, came and took her car away, and there was no money for me on the Saturday. So I suppose she married ...
— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton |
