A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... passed by , the numbers of things seen on the way , give to the driving tourist an impression of distance that no mere rapid transit by rail from one station to another can possibly afford . By road the distance between different towns ...
... passed by , the numbers of things seen on the way , give to the driving tourist an impression of distance that no mere rapid transit by rail from one station to another can possibly afford . By road the distance between different towns ...
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... passing of that forsaken and mournful churchyard made us feel still more , by the cheerful contrast , the gladsomeness and brightness of that summer day , the enlivening effect of the golden sunshine and the inspiriting greeting of the ...
... passing of that forsaken and mournful churchyard made us feel still more , by the cheerful contrast , the gladsomeness and brightness of that summer day , the enlivening effect of the golden sunshine and the inspiriting greeting of the ...
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... passing this we reached Brentwood . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have ...
... passing this we reached Brentwood . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have ...
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... passed the old house in the twenty - four hours ; them was lively times . I can well remember when fifty coach - horses and upwards were kept in these stables , besides fifteen " posters , " and post - boys booted and spurred " next ...
... passed the old house in the twenty - four hours ; them was lively times . I can well remember when fifty coach - horses and upwards were kept in these stables , besides fifteen " posters , " and post - boys booted and spurred " next ...
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... passed through a pleasantly undulating country with peeps ever and again of distant blue hills ; a country it was that re- minded us much of Berkshire . Certainly had we been suddenly set down thereabouts without being told what part of ...
... passed through a pleasantly undulating country with peeps ever and again of distant blue hills ; a country it was that re- minded us much of Berkshire . Certainly had we been suddenly set down thereabouts without being told what part of ...
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altar-tombs ancient architecture artist beauty Beccles better brass brick building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour cottage Cromer curious delightful Dick Turpin discovered driving drove England English epitaphs Essex farmhouse farmstead Faulkbourne Friston gables gateway grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered Herongate highwayman horses hostel hostelry inns inscription journey KENTWELL HALL land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once painted passed past phaeton photograph picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint railway rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seems side sketch spot Stalham stone strange strangers structure Suffolk thing tion told tomb tourist tower town trees village walls wayside weather wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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