Annals of a Fishing Village: Drawn from the Notes of "A Son of the Marshes"W. Blackwood, 1891 - 289 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
Page 19
... his clothes that had been so carefully brushed by his mother in the morn- ing , " an ' there's no slub - marks on me , but she'll know I've bin where I hadn't ought . " CHAPTER III . THE HOUSE ON THE MARSH . THE A CRABBING EXPEDITION . 19.
... his clothes that had been so carefully brushed by his mother in the morn- ing , " an ' there's no slub - marks on me , but she'll know I've bin where I hadn't ought . " CHAPTER III . THE HOUSE ON THE MARSH . THE A CRABBING EXPEDITION . 19.
Page 25
... mother was busy outside in the garden , and when she came indoors she found him apparently occupied with one of his lessons for the next day , seated demurely at the great oak table . " Ye're late in , Den , an ' Larry's been here ; his ...
... mother was busy outside in the garden , and when she came indoors she found him apparently occupied with one of his lessons for the next day , seated demurely at the great oak table . " Ye're late in , Den , an ' Larry's been here ; his ...
Page 26
... mother was well pleased that her husband's richer kinsfolk should appreciate her child , and the invitation to Den to spend the morrow at their house made her forget to interrogate him as to how he had spent the hours since she had seen ...
... mother was well pleased that her husband's richer kinsfolk should appreciate her child , and the invitation to Den to spend the morrow at their house made her forget to interrogate him as to how he had spent the hours since she had seen ...
Page 27
... mother's up- stairs . Them crabs is in salt water ; we'll hev a real good bile . But how is it ye ain't got yer cruisin ' suit on ? " " I can't come ; Larry has asked me to go up town an ' see him . I've only run down to tell ye ...
... mother's up- stairs . Them crabs is in salt water ; we'll hev a real good bile . But how is it ye ain't got yer cruisin ' suit on ? " " I can't come ; Larry has asked me to go up town an ' see him . I've only run down to tell ye ...
Page 28
... mother as she gave him a good scrubbing of face and hands ; some admonitions as to how he should behave him- self - quite unnecessary on this particular occasion , and quite unheeded , and Reed - bird was chirruping gaily as he ran ...
... mother as she gave him a good scrubbing of face and hands ; some admonitions as to how he should behave him- self - quite unnecessary on this particular occasion , and quite unheeded , and Reed - bird was chirruping gaily as he ran ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afore ain't Author Baulk birds BLACKWOOD AND SONS boats Book called Cheaper Edition church close cloth crabs creatures creek Crown 8vo curlews Den's Denzil dogs door ducks dunlins edge eels Engravings eyes father Fcap fisher flats folks fowl French morocco friends garden Genus GEORGE ELIOT grey gulls hand heard History Illustrations J. G. Lockhart JOHN John Galt knew lads land Larry LAURENCE OLIPHANT look Lord marsh marshlands Marshton master Memoir miles morning mother never night old Nance OLIPHANT once ooze pair plovers Poems poor Portrait Portreeve Post 8vo Professor Reed-bird Revised round Scoot and Winder Scotland Scottish sea-wall Second Edition seen shore shore-shooters shot side sight slub Snoovey spit spot stood things Third Edition tide tion Titlark told University of Edinburgh village vols weather wild wild-fowl WILLIAM BLACKWOOD young
Popular passages
Page 11 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, i8s. Sir William Hamilton : The Man and his Philosophy. Two Lectures Delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, January and February 1883.
Page 15 - Goethe's Faust. Part II. Translated into English Verse. Second Edition, Revised. Fcap. 8vo, 6s. The Works of Horace. Translated into English Verse, with Life and Notes.
Page 19 - Foster and others, fcap., cloth, 3s. 6d., or with edges gilt, 4s. PORT ROYAL LOGIC. Translated from the French; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix.
Page 23 - TULLOCH. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century. By JOHN TULLOCH, DD, Principal of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews ; and one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. Second Edition. 2 vols.
Page 15 - Treatise on its Culture and General Management. By CHRISTOPHER Y. MICHIE, Forester, Cullen House. Crown 8vo, with Illustrations.
Page 16 - Memoir of Count de Montalembert. A Chapter of Recent French History. By Mrs OLIPHANT, Author of the 'Life of Edward Irving,
Page 14 - Crown 8vo, pp. 300, 3s. The Intermediate Geography. Intended as an Intermediate Book between the Author's ' Outlines of Geography,' and
Page 7 - CHURCH SERVICE SOCIETY. A Book of Common Order : being Forms of Worship issued by the Church Service Society.
Page 6 - From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection. By JOHN HILL BURTON, DCL, Historiographer-Royal for Scotland. New and Enlarged Edition, 8 vols., and Index. Crown 8vo, £3, 35. History of the British Empire during the Reign of Queen Anne.
Page 18 - PAUL, Advocate of the Scottish Bar. Crown 4to, with Portraits and other Illustrations. £2, 2s. PEILE. Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill. With latest revised Laws as played by the Best Clubs. By Captain SCF PEILE, BSC Fifth Edition, fcap.