A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... standing for sign - posts beside the once thriving but now almost deserted coaching inns , prove how even a simple thing can be made effec- tive and artistic as well as useful , when the work- man loves his work . So pleased were we ...
... standing for sign - posts beside the once thriving but now almost deserted coaching inns , prove how even a simple thing can be made effec- tive and artistic as well as useful , when the work- man loves his work . So pleased were we ...
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... standing in its finely - timbered park to the humble ivy - grown cottage with its tiny garden of old - fashioned flowers , gay of colour and sweet of perfume , but whether grand or lowly each old home was in charming harmony with its ...
... standing in its finely - timbered park to the humble ivy - grown cottage with its tiny garden of old - fashioned flowers , gay of colour and sweet of perfume , but whether grand or lowly each old home was in charming harmony with its ...
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... standing corn just stirred by the breeze , the bleating of sheep , the lowing of cattle , are all soothing to the ear ; indeed they serve as a foil to accentuate the general quietness , to make the stillness more pro- found ; but the ...
... standing corn just stirred by the breeze , the bleating of sheep , the lowing of cattle , are all soothing to the ear ; indeed they serve as a foil to accentuate the general quietness , to make the stillness more pro- found ; but the ...
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... standing there , courteously brought out a chair and offered it to me . It was a thoughtful act of civility on his part , that proved him , though a butcher , to be as well a gentleman ; moreover he did not peer over my shoulder to see ...
... standing there , courteously brought out a chair and offered it to me . It was a thoughtful act of civility on his part , that proved him , though a butcher , to be as well a gentleman ; moreover he did not peer over my shoulder to see ...
89 psl.
... Standing in one of their rambling courtyards , almost if not quite deserted in this railway - travelling age ( or standing in the roadway looking upon their long many - gabled fronts ) , one can conjure to oneself with- out a great ...
... Standing in one of their rambling courtyards , almost if not quite deserted in this railway - travelling age ( or standing in the roadway looking upon their long many - gabled fronts ) , one can conjure to oneself with- out a great ...
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abbey altar-tombs ancient artist beauty Beccles Bramfield brass building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour comfortable cottage Cromer curious delightful discovered driving drove England English Essex farmhouse 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 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 photograph 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 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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