He was in the middle of his prayer when a noise came over the town, a dunting of hoofs on the causey of the Provost's house-front. |
He stood on the edge of the causey, shouting loud vivas, as the bold cavaliers rushed among the canoes that blocked up the sluice. |
Causey ate a large meal that evening, the best meal he'd eaten in nearly two years. |
He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey. |
Two of them, Ebbers and causey, had undergone congressional panel investigations beforehand. |
And representing the North East will be Newcastle's Bridge Tavern, North Shields' Staith House, and County Durham's South Causey Inn. |