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Will ye, ay or nay?Nay-- James Joyce
I'm world-famous in West Bromwich.
Mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon.
Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.
In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.
Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.
Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say 'die' and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.
What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.
There were enough trees that could hold us in Wales. But as the years went by, Wales turned from a place of forests to a place of fires and plows and boats and houses; it became a place for all the things that trees could be except for alive.
Warr be-<>rong>rongrong> orah
Where is a better country
Governor Arthur Phillip et al
Vocabulary of the language of N.S. Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney, MS 41645, SOAS, University of London
I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)
To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
Mum, Dad, Fergus... this is Skulduggery Pleasant
Kings of the land and the sky we are; proud gryphons. Stalker stands, the epitome of pride. Naked and muscular, his wings widen and his feet dig in as if he alone holds down the earth and supports the heavens, keeping the two ever separate.
She summahs in Lake James, how mahvelous
Hayes. Peter Hayes.
Billingsly castle was holding its breath. Thunderheads rolled in from the hills, thick and white and folding over like biscuit dough, bubbling, boiling magenta along the edges where the skillet was the hottest.
He [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.
In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A
. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.
Lovey dovey or fucky wucky
There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.
Fluke me, Murdstone.
How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors?
That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?
The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco.
Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud.
The Commanding Heights
And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here. Windham
StocktontoMalone
the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to
When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.
We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
I stole the y, and what was yours is now ours.Stole-- Jarod Kintz
Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'.
Lumpyface Lumpyhead
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.
Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!
We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.
The crunch of tires in the deep snow outside could be heard through the heavy cabin walls, and she followed Wolfie to see who was there. Rhys.
Shit.
Yay.
No, shit.
Really.....shit.
Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
Moorcroft with a small pasture
Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.
Poison ivy, because who needed a case of that on your pecker). We're all here in Derry. No camp, no relatives, no vacations, no AWAY. All right here. Present and accounted for. There's
will-o'-the-wisp
Aberystwyth (n.)
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
But the nation's business must go forward, and this is how: an act to give Wales members of Parliament, and make English the language of the law courts, and to cut from under them the powers of the lords of the Welsh marches.
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.
I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon - Paigne Winterbourne
Bagby Hot Springs.
Skippy Jon Jones picture book
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
I don't think I've ever felt this lost, even in Wales.
The thick plottens.
PS: Allston rules!
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.'
I'm just an Irish biddy.
Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.
Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .
woollyheads and silvergrays, and am unable to understand
Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?
I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.
I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.
To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.
I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.
The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.
graced lawn parties at Fernbank." Hoppy stood and applauded.
Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales
Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking
Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?
'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh'
'But she had the acc-'
'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Bite me, Rhys.'
'Where?
Yossarian!!!(?)!
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.
Howard Marks is a great friend and a great Welshman.
London November 1912 Heather Farm Grasmere Westmorland Dear Tilly, I hope you and your sister
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
In a long journey straw waighs.
Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
Mellingey Stream
Oh, shut up Weatherby.
Siarad Cymraeg?" said Old Shacob.
"He wants to know if you speak Welsh," said the surveyor.
"NO!" yelled the official at the old man before him.
"Tamn it all; his language, man!" shouted Dan. "What you expect in Wales - Chinese, or what?!
In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy
I shall call him Tufty.
Stuart Davises he
Our wyrds - our fates
Mother's tits, Rhys,