Nevertheless, Deliveroo was the cheapest and pleasantest way to get four dumplings.
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I wish you only the calmest and pleasantest of election-related extended-family kerfuffles.
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When I most need to concentrate, I find reasons to take serial trips on the Acela, the pleasantest work environment I know.
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P. G. Putnam, exercising his usual tact and good taste, is grouping together in his 'Semi-Monthly Library,' the very pleasantest books conceivable," it notes, adding that "the summer traveller will have a capital library ready for him.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Princeton, 'the Pleasantest Country Club,' Takes On the Yawning Class Divide," by David Leonhardt (column, May 30): While The Times's College Access Index shows which schools enroll Pell Grant recipients, that number is not sufficient to measure a college's commitment to economic diversity.
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Roe 1997 qtd. p. 266 The 1821 edition also included the final two stanzas of John Keats's poem "To Autumn" with the claim that "A living poet has happily personified autumn in some of the pleasantest shapes under which her servants appear".
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His wonderful > personality, his expert assistance and that great optimism of his stood out > as his leading qualifications. My association with him is one of the > pleasantest recollections of my life. He put men in shape, trained them and > developed them. They were 'usable' all the time.
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"Collins, pp. 63–64 Collins met the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, who directed his own plays; the meeting was, for Collins, "one of his pleasantest recollections. Gilbert always knew what he wanted. He would look at a scene model, point out defects and suggest alterations in a sympathetic manner.
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In the Arndale, refurbishment began about six years after opening. Artificial lighting and undistinguishable malls, with multiple dead ends and no obvious circular route, meant that shoppers were, in Morris's words, "bewildered by its maze-like intensity". Parkinson-Bailey described the centre as "never the pleasantest place to shop in ... hot and stuffy".Parkinson-Bailey (2000), p. 211.
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A direction for Adventurers With small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentleman, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully, And the true Description of the healthiest, pleasantest and richest plantation of New Albion in North Virginia. (London, s.n., 1641). The state of Delaware was originally part of the William Penn's Pennsylvania colony.
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Godwin wrote that he was the most important of the "four principal instructors". Hazlitt wrote "with him I passed some of the pleasantest days of my life. The conversation ... of taste and philosophy gave me a delight such as I can never feel again ... he was the person of the most refined and least contracted taste I ever knew".Hazlitt, William.
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Sprague lived in Charlestown until 1636, before moving to Hingham, where he was one of the first planters. His house lot, on Union St. "over the river" was said to be the pleasantest lot in Hingham.Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Vermont, 1913. He was active in public affairs, and was Constable, Fence Viewer, etc. Sprague’s will names his wife, Millicent (Eames), and children, Anthony, Samuel, William, Joan, Jonathan, Persis, Johanna and Mary.
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He described his time in Ulster as "the pleasantest tour I've ever undertaken". He returned to the mainland by way of the Isle of Man, where he entertained the troops guarding the internment camps. After further charity shows—raising £8,000 for a tank fund—Formby was the associate producer for the Vera Lynn film We'll Meet Again (1943). In March he also filmed Much Too Shy which was released in October that year.
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The first Manorbier Castle was motte and bailey style, with the stone walls being added in the next century by later Normans. Giraldus Cambrensis, son of William de Barri, was born in the village in 1146, and called it "the pleasantest place in Wales".Manorbier Castle St James's parish church dates from the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building. A large number of other buildings and structures in the parish are listed.
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Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie wrote about Bernard with much praise: :He surpasses [Balzac] in energy and limpidity of composition. His style is elegant and cultured. His genius is most fully represented in a score or so of delightful tales ... full of invention and originality, and saturated with the purest and pleasantest essence of the spirit which ... made French literature the delight and recreation of Europe. In The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray discusses Bernard's writing: :M.
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The farm itself is a delightful object, with its fields neatly enclosed, its orchards, and its groves. Here Mr. Rogers has formed an avenue, a mile in length, reaching quite to the waters edge. At the same time, he has united plantations of fruit trees, a rich garden, and other interesting objects, so combined as to make this one of the pleasantest retreats in the United States. Rogers brought in Royal L. Gay from Stafford Springs, CT, to manage the estate.
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O'Flaherty/Stuart had become successful and again famous for his hospitality and parties. It was well known that there was something against him, but it was presumed that he left England being unable to pay his debts. Englishmen of great position, on their return from America, told how they had been entertained by the pleasantest and wittiest of Irishmen, Captain Stuart. He spent the large income he was making, fell into poverty, and died in New York on 27 December 1886.
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The group was a "jolly, refined, interesting and artistic set of people...like one large family." There Hassam recalled, "I spent some of my pleasantest summers...(and) where I met the best people in the country." Hassam's subjects for his paintings included Thaxter's flower garden, the rocky landscape, and some interior scenes rendered with his most impressionistic brush strokes to date. In Impressionist fashion, he applied his colors "perfectly clear out of the tube" to unprimed canvas without pre-mixing.
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The accidental sight of a letter from his father to Gilling 'determined [him] to be a minister at all events.' With this view he remained with Gilling three-quarters of a year (1712–13), the pleasantest part of his life. Gilling directed his studies, and he fell in love with Gilling's daughter. In May 1713 Edmund Calamy, D.D., visited the west of England, and, hearing of Fox's scruples, made him easy by telling him confidentially that he himself had never subscribed, and that if Fox 'kept himself to himself' the omission would never be suspected.
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On December 16, 1864 the local Mechanics' Institute created Victoria's first community- oriented lending library. Located on Bastion Street, the library's collection included books donated by James Douglas (Governor). The Institute's rooms were "well lighted and warmed, and with their copious supply of reading matter, [formed] one of the pleasantest [sic] places in the city in which to pass a quiet hour." In October, 1886, the Mechanics' Institute informed Victoria's city council that it intended to wind up its affairs and offered the book collection to the City.
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The first recorded European to visit what is today Camden County was Captain Jean Ribault of France in 1562. Ribault was sent out by French Huguenots to find a suitable place for a settlement. Ribault named the rivers he saw the Seine and the Some, known today as the St. Marys and Satilla Rivers. Ribault described the area as, "Fairest, fruitfulest and pleasantest of all the world."" Camden County History" Our Georgia History In 1565, Spain became alarmed by the French settlements and sent out a large force to take over and settle the area.
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" The restoration was well-received, with commendation from Ed Ainsworth of the Los Angeles Times writing: "The example of this restoration ought to inspire other communities and families to do the same. This adobe has now become an imperishable glorification of early California, and an irresistible lure for modern visitors." Two years later, the Los Angeles Times reported: "The structure has become famous throughout the nation as a permanent museum housing many relics and equipment of the early Spanish days in California." In 1968, it was called "one of the pleasantest and most complete of the rancho restorations.
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The Era reported: "A decidedly favourable impression was made by Miss Julia Stewart, who ... bewitched all present by her pretty face, her artless, winning style, her dainty treatment of the Scotch dialect, and the thorough freshness and naturalness of her acting throughout. This was one of the pleasantest performances we have seen for many a day".The Era, 7 October 1877, p. 12, reprinted at Footlight Notes, John Culme (ed.), 4 April 2009 She then returned to the Haymarket as Mary Meredith in a revival Our American Cousin with E. A. Sothern, taking the same part on tour after the London run.
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Alfred William Howitt, Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist, described her as 'one of the pleasantest and most energetic ladies I have ever met with'. Eliza died on 5 August 1859. In recognition of Eliza's contribution to the Australian Wool Industry, and her golfing prowess in Scotland, an annual golf event, The Eliza Forlonge Memorial Golf Challenge, is held in December each year at the Euroa and Strathbogie Golf Clubs. Both Golf Clubs are in the vicinity of the Seven Creeks Station and the event serves as a reminder of Eliza's contribution to the wool industry and in promoting the role of women in golf.
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His first main destination was Alma Ata (Almaty), the capital of the Kazakh republic, which lies near to the Tien Shan Mountains. He characterised it as "one of the pleasantest provincial towns in the Soviet Union" and particularly appreciated the apples for which it is famous. From there he took a truck to a hill village called Talgar and went walking with one of his NKVD escorts; Maclean availed himself of peasant hospitality and commented on the general prosperity. He managed to hire a car and made it to Issyk-kul, the lake that never freezes, but had to turn back because of the season.
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The origin of the quote is perhaps explained by The News Reporter which states, "N.C. State University researcher John A. McGeachy seems to have found it in his paper “Travel on the Cape Fear River in the Colonial Period". A group of at least 14 men traveled the area with Nathaniel Moore in 1733. The publication from that trip was called “A New Voyage to Georgia.” From old Brunswick they traveled up the Cape Fear River to Moore's place, then to Lake Waccamaw, described by an unnamed author as “the pleasantest place that ever I saw in my life.” John Powell's son, Absalom, after the American Revolutionary War, started buying large areas of land.
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Autumn in Kyle and the Charm of Cunninghame. London : Jenkins. P. 60 In 1818, the English poet John Keats took a trip to Scotland to visit the home, years after Burns' death in 1796. Before Keats arrived, he wrote to a friend that "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns -- we need not think of his misery -- that is all gone -- bad luck to it -- I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."Costa, Robert, "Keats’s House, Restored", article, The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2009, retrieved August 12, 2009 but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returned him to thoughts of misery.
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Nor of American literature alone. One of the pleasantest consequences of her last public appearance at the Howells' birthday dinner was the personal touch it gave her with the English poet, William Watson. In 1884, the year of her husband's death, Dorr became the leader of a group of women who founded the Rutland Free Library. She served as president of the association, and gave to the library, in memory of her husband, what was said to be the finest and most complete collection of books on political science to be found in New England at the time, and one of the best in the English-speaking world outside of the University of Cambridge.
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Surely, the North British Railway Company, who > have made what is believed to be an excellent bargain, will show the > Dunfermline and Inverkeithing people that they are not only disposed to be > just but also generous.Falkirk Herald: Thursday 8 November 1877 Even after the opening of the promised ferry and train connection, things were still wrong for the newspaper: > One of the pleasantest stage-coach routes still in existence is that between > Edinburgh and Dunfermline. The journey is made in little more than a couple > of hours when the ferry service is reliable, which it has not been for a > considerable length of time. And the inconvenience became more intolerable > after the opening of the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway.
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He was a trustee for Edward Alleyn's widow and the executor of his will. He became Master on 27 March 1631 after the death of Thomas Alleyn. It has been noted that in the period between the Founder's death and when the College was reconstituted in 1857, the chief object of the Master, Warden and Fellows had been to lead the pleasantest life possible with little regard to furthering Alleyn's directions to provide every poor scholar with adequate preparation for the world. The fact that the Founder had been so narrow in his definition of who could become Master or Warden also meant that this narrowed the field of applicants such that the quality of candidate was not always of the highest calibre.
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Almost 200 years before canal vacations became popular, Thomas Jefferson, then ambassador to France before he became the third President of the United States, had written to a friend about the Canal du Midi in southern France. He said, "Of all the methods of travelling I have ever tried this is the pleasantest.... You should not think of returning to America without taking this tour I have taken."Letter to William Short, 21 May 1787 The idea of repeating in France what was proving successful in England by converting large barges (i.e. barges generally designed to fit into the locks of canals with minimal remaining volume) began in 1966 with the Barge Palinurus, converted from a carrying coal barge called the 'Ponctuel' and captained by Richard Parsons on the canals of the Burgundy region of France.
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Before becoming Warden on 16 May 1642, he had practiced as a surgeon. On Thomas Alleyn's death he became Master on 15 March 1668/9. He has been grouped as one of a "sad procession of non-entities" who, with few exceptions in the period between the Founder's death and when the College was reconstituted in 1857, on becoming Warden or Master, had as their chief object to lead the pleasantest life possible with little regard to furthering Alleyn's directions to provide every poor scholar with adequate preparation for the world.Hodges, S, (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, page 17, (Heinemann: London) He died on 24 January 1677/8 and was succeeded in the post by the surgeon John Alleyn who had served as Warden in the period that Raph had been Master.
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He became Warden on 18 April 1631, after his predecessor, and cousin, Matthias became Master. On Matthias' death he became Master on 9 April 1642. He has been grouped as one of a "sad procession of non-entities" who, with few exceptions in the period between the Founder's death and when the College was reconstituted in 1857, on becoming Warden or Master, had as their chief object to lead the pleasantest life possible with little regard to furthering Alleyn's directions to provide every poor scholar with adequate preparation for the world.Hodges, S, (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, page 17, (Heinemann: London) He died on 15 March 1668/1669 and was succeeded in the post by the surgeon Raph Alleyn who had served as Warden in the period that Thomas had been Master.
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Leslie Stephen, who referred to it thus: "a pocket-paradise", described it as "The pleasantest of my memories... refer to our summers, all of which were passed in Cornwall, especially to the thirteen summers (1882–1894) at St Ives. There we bought the lease of Talland House: a small but roomy house, with a garden of an acre or two all up and down hill, with quaint little terraces divided by hedges of escallonia, a grape-house and kitchen-garden and a so-called 'orchard' beyond". It was in Leslie's words, a place of "intense domestic happiness". Virginia herself described the house in great detail: In both London and Cornwall, Julia was perpetually entertaining, and was notorious for her manipulation of her guests' lives, constantly matchmaking in the belief everyone should be married, the domestic equivalence of her philanthropy.
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James Allen took the role of Warden of the College on 26 May 1712 under the name James Alleyn and became Master on 1 September 1721. During his time at the College much rebuilding was carried out and the estates run by the charitable foundation were carefully administered. Most of his predecessors, both in the role of Master and Warden, as well as most of the former Fellows of the College, had taken advantage of the privileged position they found themselves in to live the pleasantest life possible, whilst for the most part ignoring the wishes of the College's founder, Edward Alleyn, to ensure that every poor scholar would be adequately prepared for going out in the world, be that into an apprenticeship or to university. James Allen, however, was very conscious of the Foundation's duty as laid out in the statutes penned by Edward Alleyn.
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The focal point of the new settlement was MacNider's manor house at Little Métis Point, from where he could run his many business interests when there in the summer months. But, his and his second wife's, Angelica's, real home there was a modest cottage at Grand-Métis, which to Angelica seemed 'the pleasantest situation in the world'. Angelica's opinion of Little Metis was much the same, as recorded on her first viewing of the community in her diary, June 22, 1822: In the course of the day a great many of our tenants came to pay their respects to us; Little Métis is one of the prettiest places that I ever saw; it is like an island. The manor house is built on the Point and all the buildings which are built around it makes it appear as a little villa surrounded with water.
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As for Lord Ashburton's change of mind, Swete remarked: "He soon dropt all thoughts of proceding with the plans he had form'd at Sandridge; Park indeed was a situation more congenial to Lord Ashburton's mind; it was wild and romantic; he delighted its softening the harsh and rude features of the scene around him and in its meliorating the grounds, which lay almost in a state of nature, neglected and uncultur'd". Lord Ashburton created at Spitchwick (on the site of a chapel dedicated to St. LaurenceBaring-Gould) a mansion in which "he much delighted to reside"Risdon,p.378 and where he "escap'd from the trammels of State and the bustle of the Great Town, and enjoy'd the otium cum dignitate."Leisure with dignity", (Cicero, De Oratore,Book I, 1-2), mis- printed in Gray as otium cum am libertate (sic) This was his Tusculum and here" (as he often told Swete) "(with) his rural amusements, with his books, his friends, his dearest Leisure...he past his pleasantest hours".
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Several elements in The Story of the Amulet were borrowed by C. S. Lewis for his Narnia series, particularly The Horse and His Boy (1954) and The Magician's Nephew (1955).Nicholson, M. "C.S. Lewis and the Scholarship of Imagination in E. Nesbit and Rider Haggard", Renascence, Fall 1998 The Calormene god Tash closely resembles the deity Nisroch, whose name may also have influenced the title of the Calormene king, the Tisroc. Lewis's Tisroc, like Nesbit's King of Babylon, must have his name followed by "may he live forever", and the appearance of Jadis, Queen of Charn, in London in The Magician's Nephew, and the havoc she causes there, closely parallel the Queen of Babylon's eventful journey to London. In the third canto of his poem "Villon" (written 1925, published 1930), British modernist poet Basil Bunting stated he took the image of two drops of quicksilver (mercury) merging from Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet and described her work as the “pleasantest reading of my childhood”.Basil Bunting, “Notes to Collected Poems”, Basil Bunting Collected Poems, edited by Richard Caddell (New York: New Directions, 2000), 223.
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