Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's |
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... town by the few scattered bricks which the ploughshare has mingled with the ordinary tillage of the fields . It may be determined , still more visibly , by the mouldering and shapeless ruin of the ancient State House , whose venerable ...
... town by the few scattered bricks which the ploughshare has mingled with the ordinary tillage of the fields . It may be determined , still more visibly , by the mouldering and shapeless ruin of the ancient State House , whose venerable ...
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... towns- people were scattered at random over this plain , forming snug and pleasant groups for a painter's eye , and ... town , upon a cedar - clad headland which , by an abrupt descent , terminated in a long , flat , sandy point , that ...
... towns- people were scattered at random over this plain , forming snug and pleasant groups for a painter's eye , and ... town , upon a cedar - clad headland which , by an abrupt descent , terminated in a long , flat , sandy point , that ...
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... town , constituted the anchorage or harbor for the scant shipping of the port . The State House looked rearward over the town common , —a large space of open ground , at the farther end of which , upon the border of a marshy inlet ...
... town , constituted the anchorage or harbor for the scant shipping of the port . The State House looked rearward over the town common , —a large space of open ground , at the farther end of which , upon the border of a marshy inlet ...
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... town , were penetrated by an arched gateway and secured by heavy doors studded thick with nails . This portal opened upon a road which lay along the beach beneath the cliff , all the way to the upper extremity of the town . Several low ...
... town , were penetrated by an arched gateway and secured by heavy doors studded thick with nails . This portal opened upon a road which lay along the beach beneath the cliff , all the way to the upper extremity of the town . Several low ...
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... town , and finally resumed his seat and renewed his solitary and slow po- tation . When the sun had sunk halfway down the flag - staff , the Captain's wishes were crowned by the arrival of a brace of visitors . The first of these was ...
... town , and finally resumed his seat and renewed his solitary and slow po- tation . When the sun had sunk halfway down the flag - staff , the Captain's wishes were crowned by the arrival of a brace of visitors . The first of these was ...
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Albert Verheyden Alice amongst Anthony Warden Arnold beach Black House Blanche Warden boat brigantine brought brow Captain Dauntrees Chiseldine cloak Collector Colonel Talbot companions comrades Coode council creek Cripple Crow and Archer dame dance devil Dickon door ejaculated Escalfador exclaimed Father Pierre favor Fendall friends Garret Weasel gave give hand hath head heard heart honor horse hour Iago Inigoe's Isle of Kent Jerome's John Coode la Grange Lady Maria laugh light look Lord Baltimore Lordship maiden Mary's Mary's river Master Albert Master Cocklescraft Master Rob Master Verheyden merry Mistress Blanche never night Olive Branch Pamesack party port priest Proprietary province publican quarrel replied river Rose Croft scarce Secretary seen shore skipper smile speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone town turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 9 - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 156 - TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, — That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much. Loved I not honour more.
Page 262 - A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Page 9 - Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage...
Page 373 - It is our op'ning day. Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound by holy vow To bless a good man's store...
Page 135 - Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can ; And oft, to live a quiet life...
Page 65 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repel the foaming flood.
Page 177 - Fellows, to mount a bank. Did your instructor In the dear tongues, never discourse to you Of the Italian mountebanks ? Per.
Page 72 - Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 17 - Nevertheless he was wholly correct when he described the "grassy court," shut in by a "sweep of wall," in front of the Castle. "Admission," he declared, "was gained through a heavy iron gate swung between square, stuccoed pillars, each of which was surmounted by a couchant lion carved in stone."' No lions have yet come to light, but the brick footings of the courtyard enclosing wall and of the main gateway still survive solid just beneath the top soil. The portal was ten feet wide — wide enough...