WaterspringsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913 - 369 pages |
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Page 363 - On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. Twould blow like this through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood: Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it 'threshed another wood.
Page 36 - At any rate, 7 can do no harm by saying no, if I cannot purchase. I am infinitely obliged by your purchase of the Claude. You can send it me down with the picture. You did right in sending the sea-coast windmill to the exhibition. Pray come as soon as you can, and stay as long as you can.
Page 288 - ... for the course of life and duty required of your regular hard-weather Jack. One thing is it to skim the Solent in white trousers and a cap full of wind, and another to round the Horn with a frost-bitten nose and a hurricane at work blowing the marlin-spikes into shaving-brushes. Melodramatic mariners are all very well in their way ; but when it comes to fighting a gun on the stump of the leg that is left, or reefing topsails when " hold on by your eyelids" is the word, give us sterner stuff.