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West Country   /wɛst kˈəntri/   Listen
West Country

noun
1.
The southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset).





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"West Country" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sir Walter Raleigh departed towards the west country, there to provide such farther necessaries as were needful for the expedition. The wind blew long from the west, quite contrary to his intended course, by which he was wind-bound many weeks, the fittest season for his purpose being ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... pronounced, he came down from the pulpit or preaching place. The earl of Marshal and some other noblemen who were present at the sermon, entreated him earnestly to go to the north with them, but he excused himself, and took journey for the west country, where he was ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... the news of all this reached young Tristram's ears, he felt very greatly mortified that there could not be found in Cornwall a knight to fight for their rights, and his heart burned within him to go and save the honour of the West Country. He went to his father, King Melodias. "It seems to me," he cried impetuously, "a shame to us all, that Sir Marhaus, who is brother to the Queen of Ireland, should go back and say we Cornishmen have no one worthy to ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... Nineve with all his company of sundry nations and feasted. In the eighteenth year, Nabuchodonosor called the chief captain of his army, Holofernes, and commanded him to take one hundred and twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horsemen and go against all the west country because they had disobeyed his commandment. He charged also Holofernes to spare none that would not yield, and put them to the slaughter, and spoil them. And the army went forth with a great number of allies like locusts into Cilicia, and destroyed Phud and Lud, and all the children ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various


Words linked to "West Country" :   geographic region, geographic area, England, geographical area, geographical region


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