"Valance" Quotes from Famous Books
... informations of persons said to have taken part in the rising; and an important mass of papers relative to the rebellion of 1745-46. There has also been discovered at the Chapter House at Westminster, the correspondence between Edward I., Edward II., and their lieutenants in Scotland, Aymer de Valance, Earl of Pembroke, John, Earl of Warren, and Hugh Cressingham. The letters patent have also been found, by which, in 1304, William Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrew's, testified his having come into the peace of the king of England, and {406}found himself to answer for the temporalities ... — Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 • Various
... the disclosure that there was a bill against this Luggage to the amount of two sixteen six. The Luggage had been lying under the bedstead of 24 B over six year. The bedstead is a four-poster, with a deal of old hanging and valance, and is, as I once said, probably connected with more than 24 Bs,—which I remember my hearers was pleased to laugh at, ... — Somebody's Luggage • Charles Dickens
... do," he continued, pointing to a kind of settee, cushioned, and with a common moreen valance hanging down, while a rough kind of pillow was fastened to one end. "You get up, Miss, and lift a bit. I won't hurt him more than I can help. That's it. Sorry, Miss, I ... — The Bag of Diamonds • George Manville Fenn |