The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
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... boats on the beach are idle , and swarms of boys are climbing over them , swinging on a rope from the bowsprit , or playing at marbles under the cliff . Bigger boys collect under the lee of a smack , and do nothing cheerfully . The ...
... boats on the beach are idle , and swarms of boys are climbing over them , swinging on a rope from the bowsprit , or playing at marbles under the cliff . Bigger boys collect under the lee of a smack , and do nothing cheerfully . The ...
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... boat , for there is nothing so hard to get at as the truth about fish . At the time when society was pluming itself on the capital results attained by the Fisheries Exhibition in London , and gentlemen described in the papers how they ...
... boat , for there is nothing so hard to get at as the truth about fish . At the time when society was pluming itself on the capital results attained by the Fisheries Exhibition in London , and gentlemen described in the papers how they ...
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... boats and the fishing , the nets , and all the fishing work are a great ornament to Brighton . They are real ; there is something about them that forms a link with the facts of the sea , with the forces of the tides and winds , and the ...
... boats and the fishing , the nets , and all the fishing work are a great ornament to Brighton . They are real ; there is something about them that forms a link with the facts of the sea , with the forces of the tides and winds , and the ...
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... boats , and to recline on the shingle by a smack when the wind comes gently from the west , and the low wave breaks but a few yards from my feet . I like the occasional passing scent of pitch : they are melting it close by . I confess I ...
... boats , and to recline on the shingle by a smack when the wind comes gently from the west , and the low wave breaks but a few yards from my feet . I like the occasional passing scent of pitch : they are melting it close by . I confess I ...
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