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The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood! A man all light, a seraph-man, On every corse there stood.

"Marry," quoth the peasant, "an' it please your worships, ye had better journey many a good rood hence with your juggling circus than trust your bones in yonder castle."

"By the black rood of Waltham!" he roared, "if any knave among you lays a finger-end upon the edge of my gown, I will crush his skull like a filbert!" With his thick knotted arms, his thundering voice, and his bristle of red hair, there was something so repellent in the man that the three brothers flew back at the very glare of him; and the two rows of white monks strained away from him like poplars in a tempest.

Midnight and sleep blot out these scenes and thoughts: and when the morning shines again, it gilds the house-tops of a lively city, before whose broad paved wharf the boat is moored; with other boats, and flags, and moving wheels, and hum of men around it; as though there were not a solitary or silent rood of ground within the compass of a thousand miles.

Prior to the Roods' acquisition of the Hangtown facility, it was a disastrously broken down tire store.

Instead he set out to discredit English images specifically and in his text makes a strange, sweeping claim: that almost all English roods and 'Ladies' were capable of movement, through the deceptions and deceits primarily of the spiritual religious.

White is responsible for the Authority's participation and outreach efforts to ensure that minority and women-owned businesses actively and successfully take part in NYPA's procurement of Roods and services, construction contracts and professional services.

The American Civil Liberties Union is assisting the Roods together with a number of plaintiffs in the CIPA lawsuit.

While TV cookery shows are ever more popular, the man in charge of the kitchens at the landmark Durker Roods Hotel in Meltham says he is struggling to fill two vacancies for chefs after receiving only "halfhearted" applications.

By Henryk Zientek Business Reporter henryk.zientek@examiner.co.uk HISTORIC Durker Roods Hotel has a new owner.

Durker Roods at Meltham has upgraded nine ground floor bedrooms and given a facelift to its main function room with new wallpaper and carpets as well as a new chandelier.