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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... length , down to the out - rigger four - oar and the single - streak funny of the English club , not forgetting our own little pair - oar . The costume of the French crews is something wonderful : one has an entire suit of black ...
... length , down to the out - rigger four - oar and the single - streak funny of the English club , not forgetting our own little pair - oar . The costume of the French crews is something wonderful : one has an entire suit of black ...
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... length . We saw this craft when she was nearly finished , but no pulling man would ever have ima- gined that she was intended for a boat . However , it shows much spirit to have such a thing built , and we have since heard , that even ...
... length . We saw this craft when she was nearly finished , but no pulling man would ever have ima- gined that she was intended for a boat . However , it shows much spirit to have such a thing built , and we have since heard , that even ...
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... length had fairly started on a voyage , destined to extend over nearly 1000 miles of country : When we had passed the junction of the Marne with the Seine , some little way out of Paris , we moored our craft to the bank , and , jumping ...
... length had fairly started on a voyage , destined to extend over nearly 1000 miles of country : When we had passed the junction of the Marne with the Seine , some little way out of Paris , we moored our craft to the bank , and , jumping ...
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... length of the canal ) to serve as a passport through the canal , and to be endorsed by the éclusier or sluice - keeper at each lock . Our work here was very different to that against stream - more satisfactory , for we got over double ...
... length of the canal ) to serve as a passport through the canal , and to be endorsed by the éclusier or sluice - keeper at each lock . Our work here was very different to that against stream - more satisfactory , for we got over double ...
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... length under the shade of the poplars , dispatch our luncheon , then try our luck with the rod and line . Sometimes we had very good sport , for the canal abounds in tench and pike , not to men- tion smaller fry . It was on one of these ...
... length under the shade of the poplars , dispatch our luncheon , then try our luck with the rod and line . Sometimes we had very good sport , for the canal abounds in tench and pike , not to men- tion smaller fry . It was on one of these ...
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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.
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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.