The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 50
... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
Page 53
... boats on the beach are idle , and swarms of boys are climbing over them , swinging on a rope from the bowsprit , or playing at marbles under the cliff . Bigger boys collect under the lee of a smack , and do nothing cheerfully . The ...
... boats on the beach are idle , and swarms of boys are climbing over them , swinging on a rope from the bowsprit , or playing at marbles under the cliff . Bigger boys collect under the lee of a smack , and do nothing cheerfully . The ...
Page 54
... boat , for there is nothing so hard to get at as the truth about fish . At the time when society was pluming itself on the capital results attained by the Fisheries Exhibition in London , and gentlemen described in the papers how they ...
... boat , for there is nothing so hard to get at as the truth about fish . At the time when society was pluming itself on the capital results attained by the Fisheries Exhibition in London , and gentlemen described in the papers how they ...
Page 55
... boats and the fishing , the nets , and all the fishing work are a great ornament to Brighton . They are real ; there is something about them that forms a link with the facts of the sea , with the forces of the tides and winds , and the ...
... boats and the fishing , the nets , and all the fishing work are a great ornament to Brighton . They are real ; there is something about them that forms a link with the facts of the sea , with the forces of the tides and winds , and the ...
Page 56
... boats , and to recline on the shingle by a smack when the wind comes gently from the west , and the low wave breaks but a few yards from my feet . I like the occasional passing scent of pitch : they are melting it close by . I confess I ...
... boats , and to recline on the shingle by a smack when the wind comes gently from the west , and the low wave breaks but a few yards from my feet . I like the occasional passing scent of pitch : they are melting it close by . I confess I ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beach beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers gone grass green Guido happy heat hedge illustrated boards jogger King's Road labour ladies leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never Novel passed pebbles pheasant PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Post 8vo rain red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES river road roof rooks round rushing seemed shadow shot side sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint trees Vols W. S. GILBERT walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer