Sentence examples for of a shire from inspiring English sources

He has the hooves of a shire horse and a pair of horns that could double as musical instruments.

The title of earl (the English equivalent of count, from the Danish jarl) was first introduced into England under King Canute of Denmark and of Norway (king of England 1016 35), but prior to this the duties of an earl, the administration of a shire or province on behalf of the king, were performed by ealdormen.

Their average weight ranges from 900-1100 kg The head of a Shire is long and lean, with large eyes, set on a neck that is slightly arched and long in proportion to the body.

He is well-thought of there, according to Keith Harrison, editor of the Shropshire Star, and has increased his majority at four successive general elections, perhaps because he is the very model of a shires Tory MP.

You know the kind of thing: Serrailler is the detective chief inspector of Lafferton, a shire town famous for its cathedral, its walking country and, since his arrival, for its serial murderers.

In 1608, Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple was a Shire Commissioner for Dumbartonshire (prior to the Acts of Union 1707, a Shire Commissioner was the equivalent of the English office of Member of Parliament).

Henry VIII formally established the earldom of Pembroke as a shire (county) in 1536, and English law was imposed from 1542.

Acting as a kind of fulcrum to the village of Fulbeck in Lincolnshire – a shire to which (due to its location, house prices and landscape) I'm convinced a chunk of my generation will end up moving – this pub used to have a rather Gothic upper level, in which overheard whispers subtracted from each table's privacy.

A shire of four million, then?

Oh, and there is one other matter: some form of wolverine, as large as a shire horse but rather less placid, has leaped onto the rear of the carriage and is making a concerted effort to join the party.

As the buggered ploughs and botched pottage mounted, any residual rose-tinted sentimentality flaked off like the skin of a psoriatic shire horse.