Here were choicest specimens of the then costly spices of Cathay, or the famous falcons of Norway and livonia, for which English sportsmen were willing to pay fabulous prices.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Sir James sent him instructions by telegram to proceed at once to Kurland and livonia, where Citizen Browning was abroad again, and town and country-side blazed in revolt.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
He came of a Scottish family which long ago had settled in livonia, and had won prosperity and esteem in the trade of Riga.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose