wealden

Þ̷ ne schulde ha lihtliche wilni na wunne {;} þ̵ ha ne schulde wealden. wið þe {re} an þ̵ ha walde hire wil wenden.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Se þe aihte wile holde wel þe hwile hes muȝe wealden.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Modern preference for plate glass and easily opened doors has changed the original plan of the ground floor, but the first floor remains almost as its builder left it, and its heavy girders with their rounded ends jutting out over the pavement below are a happy testimony to the worth of wealden builders and wealden wood.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The chimney seats have lapsed into cupboards and a stove stands where once the wealden logs roared up into the night.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

I recognised them at once as the palatal teeth of a fossil fish called "Lepidotus," common in our own oolitic and wealden strata, and in rocks of that age all over the world.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

A drab colour like that of the skin of the common toad is given to them by the iron salts present in many oolitic rocks; those found in the wealden of the Isle of Wight are black.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Throughout the long lapse of the secondary ages, across the lias, the oolite, the wealden, and the chalk, we find the mammalian race slowly developing into opossums and kangaroos, such as still inhabit the isolated and antiquated continent of Australia.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

It had ribs like a chameleon, and the body of a whale: it chiefly inhabited the water; but as the visitor will find the chief types of these extraordinary extinct reptiles in the next room, he may at once, with the comfortable assurance that the Weald of Kent yields nothing in the present day like the wealden lizard, turn to the table cases of the room, in which he-will find further varieties of

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

He did many things that do not here concern me, and his chief work was to make the rich towns of the sea plain and of Chichester and of Lewes and of Arundel, and of the steadings of the Weald, and of the wealden markets also, Christian men; for he showed them that it was a mean thing to go about in a hairy way like pagans, unacquainted with letters, and of imperfect ability in the making of raiment or the getting of victuals.

On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911