 Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oal woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into...  North Devon - Side 120av Frederick John Snell - 1906 - 186 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 324 sider
...green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together...thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old VOL. I. B town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ocean... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 320 sider
...green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together...thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old VOL. I. B town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ocean... | |
 | 1893 - 958 sider
...its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above...the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." But the traveler who arrives there with the beginning of Westward Ho ! warm in the memory will recall... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1857 - 300 sider
...green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together...the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE TOWN. The Parish Church (S. Mary) was built in the 14th century, contains... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1862 - 102 sider
...fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister...the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE TOWN. The Parish Church (S. Mary) was built in the 14th century, and is... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 sider
...and green, till they sink into the expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the sea and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath... | |
 | John Ashton (of Manchester.) - 1876 - 128 sider
...fertile squares of red and green till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly towards the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 548 sider
...green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together...surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1877 - 494 sider
...and rolling sand hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw. and both together flow quietly towards the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE TOWN. The Par'ish Church (S. Mary), a I4th century building, was pulled... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 sider
...here and there a crag of fernfringed slate ; below they lower and open more and more in softly rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till...the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell." There the town has stood, perhaps for full eight centuries, since the first Grenvil, cousin of the... | |
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