A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... look- ing their leafiest , the grass its greenest ; wild flowers then , too , everywhere abound , brightening the land with their glowing colours and making gay the hedgerows with their many tints ; nor is the eye alone delighted , for ...
... look- ing their leafiest , the grass its greenest ; wild flowers then , too , everywhere abound , brightening the land with their glowing colours and making gay the hedgerows with their many tints ; nor is the eye alone delighted , for ...
12 psl.
... picturesqueness and old - time look . One of these lowly cottages that does duty as a Post Office we noticed with pleasure had a thatched roof , THE LANGDON HILLS . 13 a roof bronzed and tinted 12 A TOUR IN A PHAETON .
... picturesqueness and old - time look . One of these lowly cottages that does duty as a Post Office we noticed with pleasure had a thatched roof , THE LANGDON HILLS . 13 a roof bronzed and tinted 12 A TOUR IN A PHAETON .
26 psl.
... look upon , the man of to - day having to fit into his dwelling like a hermit crab as best he may . An old - time home , with its many high - pitched gables , clustering stacks of chimneys , tiled irregular roofs , mullioned windows ...
... look upon , the man of to - day having to fit into his dwelling like a hermit crab as best he may . An old - time home , with its many high - pitched gables , clustering stacks of chimneys , tiled irregular roofs , mullioned windows ...
28 psl.
... look they have nowadays . Who then would have ima- gined that people would ever travel behind an iron . horse ? The Lion and the Lamb was the other coaching house , but this was the chief inn and we used to get all the best custom ...
... look they have nowadays . Who then would have ima- gined that people would ever travel behind an iron . horse ? The Lion and the Lamb was the other coaching house , but this was the chief inn and we used to get all the best custom ...
39 psl.
... look had not been altogether improved away . It was truly a picture in the prosaic street , and redeemed it from being wholly common - place . We could not resist the temptation to make a sketch of this ancient bit of architecture ...
... look had not been altogether improved away . It was truly a picture in the prosaic street , and redeemed it from being wholly common - place . We could not resist the temptation to make a sketch of this ancient bit of architecture ...
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altar-tombs ancient artist beauty Beccles Bramfield brass building built carved castle charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour comfortable cottage Cromer curious delightful discovered driving drove England English Essex farmstead Faulkbourne fresh gables grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered highwayman horses hostelry inns inscription interest journey Kentwell Hall land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted London look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk Norfolk towns noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once ourselves painted passed past phaeton picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint quiet railway rain rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof ruined rural scenery seemed side sketch spot Stalham stone strange street structure Suffolk thatched thing tion told tomb took tourist town traveller trees village walls wayside weather whilst wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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