You are looking at 1-8 of 8 entries for:
- All: Camber x
- Literature x
Did you mean cambering, Cambers, pre-camber cambering, Cambers, pre-camber
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
Camber Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... In British legend, the second son of brute . Wales fell to him and hence (in popular mythology) received its name of cambria...
Camber
Ignoge
Walker, David (b. 1911) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
...in 1938 when he was aide-de-camp to the Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir. Walker was captured in France in 1940 and held prisoner-of-war until 1945 , an experience on which he based his novel The pillar ( 1952 ). In 1945–6 he served as an instructor at Staff College, Camberly, England, before taking up his last official military post as comptroller to the Viceroy of India. In 1947 he retired, with the rank of major, to take up a new career as professional writer, ultimately settling in St Andrews, New Brunswick. From 1957 to 1961 he was a member...
McKay, Don(ald) (1942–) Reference library
Jeremy Noel-Tod
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
...on Poetry & Wilderness (Gaspereau, 2001). His early books include Birding, or Desire (1983). Strike/Slip (2006), a meditation on geology, won the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize. Paradoxides (2012) continues his exploration of this subject. Two recent selections are available: Camber: Selected Poems (2004—all McClelland & Stewart) and Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006), ed. Méira Cook. In 2008 McKay became a Member of the Order of Canada. Jeremy Noel-Tod...
Brutus Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...in Britain. In remembrance of troy he called the capital of his kingdom Troy Novant, now London. After the death of Brutus, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, his kingdom was divided into three parts among his three sons. locrinus received the land called loegria (England), Camber was granted cambria (Wales) and Albanactus was given Albania (Scotland) ( see albany ). See also marcus brutus ( under marcus ). Et tu, Brute ‘Thou, too, Brutus!’ Julius caesar ’s exclamation when he saw that his old friend Marcus Brutus was one of his assassins....
McAdam, John Loudon (1756–1836) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...argued, but they ignorantly wasted money on constant, futile repairs of easily rutted surfaces. McAdam prescribed a composition of small stones, broken to a maximum diameter of one inch and laid to a depth of one foot directly onto the subsoil, with no added sand or earth; the camber should be minimized. Under the weight of passing traffic the stones would coalesce into a smooth, solid, dust-free surface. Reuse of the large stones that had been dumped ineffectually by earlier menders, combined with fewer repairs in future, would guarantee lower costs. The...
Camberwell Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
...church of a parish that took in Dulwich and Peckham. High-class terraced houses were built in the 1820s and 1830s, but by the mid-19th century terraces of much smaller dwellings covered much of the district. In 2009 local historian John Chaple discovered the original Camber Well beneath the back garden of a house in south-east Camberwell. Camberwell Beauty A velvety chocolate-brown butterfly ( Nymphalis antiopa ), rarely seen because it migrates each year from Scandinavia. The name comes from its first recorded sighting, on Coldharbour Lane in ...
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
