The struggle was then concentrated round Chatillon, which was time after time taken and lost by the Republicans.
Sacked and burned time after time during the Border strife, it was inevitable that the townsmen should become keen fighters.
The residue is removed to a calico filter and thoroughly washed with boiling water, the wash water being reboiled and used time after time.
But this first conquest of the region beyond Humber had to be repeated over and over again; time after time the Danes rebelled and proclaimed a new king, aided sometimes by bands of their kinsmen from Ireland or Norway, sometimes by the Scots and Strathclyde Welsh.
Yet the spirit of revolt lingered in the west and broke out time after time.