 ... knitted by my mother, it happened to me without choice, I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise. My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much; and there is nothing that frightens us so much as for...  Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor - Page 43by Richard Doddridge Blackmore - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Great Britain - 1886 - 568 pages
...choice, I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise. My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much; and there...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen pepper-corns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted any thing... | |
 | Richard Doddridge Blackmore - English drama - 1889 - 742 pages
...choice, I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise : My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there is nothing that frightens us so much ?i for people to have no love for their victuals. Now I chanced to remember that once, at the time... | |
 | Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Exmoor (England) - 1890 - 742 pages
...without choice, I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise : rhanced to remember that once, at the time of the holidays,...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen pepper-corns. And mother had said that, in all her life, she had never tasted anything... | |
 | Scottish Text Society - Scotland - 1892 - 418 pages
...romance of Exmoor, he would probably have given a different explanation of it : " My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen pepper-corns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted anything... | |
 | Alexander Scott - Scotland - 1896 - 278 pages
...romance of Exmoor, he would probably have given a different explanation of it : " My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen pepper-corns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted anything... | |
 | 1897 - 248 pages
..."Cripps the Carrier," "Mary Anerley," " Springhaven, " "Perlycross," etc. PART I. MY mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...dear mother from Tiverton a jar of pickled loaches, baked in the kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen peppercorns. And mother... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 248 pages
...once at the time of the holidays I had brought dear mother from Tiverton a jar of pickled loaches, baked in the kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen peppercorns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted anything fit... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise : — My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen peppercorns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted anything fit... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 564 pages
...I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise : — My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...that once at the time of the holidays I had brought 1 By permission of author and Sampson Low, Mareton & Co. (Crown 8vo., 2i. C(Z.) dear mother from Tiverton... | |
 | Children's literature - 1901 - 460 pages
...I may say, to explore the Bagworthy water. And it came about in this wise : — My mother had long been ailing, and not well able to eat much ; and there...kitchen oven, with vinegar, a few leaves of bay, and about a dozen peppercorns. And mother had said that in all her life she had never tasted anything fit... | |
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