The Rybybe is well portrayed among the Norman carvings of the twelfth century which adorn the south doorway of Barfreston Church in Kent (Plate XV).

It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.

An Herbary, for furnishing domestic medicines, always made a part of our ancient gardens

One or two wondered then, as if suddenly recalling the outlander, how he would manage, or if he would perish, up there among his unholy modern machineries that puffed out frozen steam to store the deer meat and shot fowl for him, […] And there were big boxes lugged up there, done up in iron clasps. Cruel-cold earth in those. […] Like corpse boxes, someone else suggested, down in the half-light, snug fust of the village drinking shop.