Our Cruise in the Undine: The Journal of an English Pair-oar Expedition Through France, Baden, Rhenish Bavaria, Prussia, and BelgiumJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 156 pages |
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... discovered us at some distance from the town , continued adding to their numbers until they assumed the appearance of a respectable crowd . Having procured the laissez - passer , which cost us the extravagant sum of one penny , we ...
... discovered us at some distance from the town , continued adding to their numbers until they assumed the appearance of a respectable crowd . Having procured the laissez - passer , which cost us the extravagant sum of one penny , we ...
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... discovered our position , though only in time to spring to the bank and hold on by one of the rudder strings while the boat swung round with her bow half over the top of the waterfall . It was hard work even then to prevent her from ...
... discovered our position , though only in time to spring to the bank and hold on by one of the rudder strings while the boat swung round with her bow half over the top of the waterfall . It was hard work even then to prevent her from ...
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... discovered whole in the snake's inside whilst we were dis- patching him . The inhabitants of Clerval , the next place of any importance we came too , were equally surprised with those of St. Jean de l'Osne ; but rather than stop to ...
... discovered whole in the snake's inside whilst we were dis- patching him . The inhabitants of Clerval , the next place of any importance we came too , were equally surprised with those of St. Jean de l'Osne ; but rather than stop to ...
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... discovered in his sitting room ; two friends who were with him having evidently dropped in for a morning chat . There was a bottle of wine on the table and three tumblers , two of which contained crusts of bread which were being steeped ...
... discovered in his sitting room ; two friends who were with him having evidently dropped in for a morning chat . There was a bottle of wine on the table and three tumblers , two of which contained crusts of bread which were being steeped ...
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... discovery to find a car- penter , whom we set to work immediately to make a new set of elbows after the pattern of those which had been shattered by the collision . At four o'clock the next morning , the carpenter having finished the ...
... discovery to find a car- penter , whom we set to work immediately to make a new set of elbows after the pattern of those which had been shattered by the collision . At four o'clock the next morning , the carpenter having finished the ...
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Page 138 - IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended, Low and loud and sweetly blended, Low at times and loud at times, And changing like a poet's rhymes, Rang the beautiful wild chimes From the Belfry in the market Of the ancient town of Bruges.
Page 132 - Ghent is said to have contained 80,000 men capable of bearing arms. The number of weavers then amounted to 40,000 ; and they alone could furnish 18,000 fighting men out of their corporation. A custom derived from that period still exists in the town : — A bell was rung at morning, noon, and evening, to summon the weavers to their work and meals ; while it tolled, the drawbridges over the canals could not be raised for the passage of vessels ; and other persons were even enjoined not to go out into...
Page 22 - Or stretch'd on the beach, or our saddles spread As a pillow beneath the resting head, Fresh we woke upon the morrow : All our thoughts and words had scope, We had health, and we had hope, Toil and travel, but no sorrow.
Page 156 - The Merchant and the Friar; or, Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages. By Sir F.
Page 114 - ... this noble river ! And right it is; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms. By...
Page 114 - ... no other part of its course does it fill an ampler channel or roll along with more impetuous rapidity. It enters the Lake of Constance turbid with the impurities of the glacier torrents which feed it. It emerges crystalline in purity, and deliciously green in colour. Well may Longfellow exclaim : " O the pride of the German heart in this noble river! And right it is, for of all the rivers of this beautiful earth there is none so beautiful as this.
Page 155 - Brampton Rectory: or, the Lesson of Life. Second Edition. 8s. 6d. Compton Merivale: another Leaf from the Lesson of Life. By the Author of Brampton Rectory . 8s.
Page 114 - The Rhine ! the Rhine ! a blessing on the Rhine !" O, the pride of the German heart in this noble river ! And right it is ; for, of all the rivers of this beautiful earth, there is none so beautiful as this. There is hardly a league of its whole course, from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms.