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• 1innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
• 2Finally his voice, still singing, died away in the distance.
• 3barrow-crowned knoll above Warminster called Cophead, and
• 4pulpit and sounding-board, bearing in capitals the inscription:
• 5than the manners of these people. They generally began
• 6Ah! said the master smith. Well, well! It is years ago
• 7At the sight of those ruffianly looking old dwellings by
• 8right in the fore-front was an exact counterpart of my
• 9golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
• 10Lobelia úrens, the flower of the Axe, a rare British
• 11of examining it, the evidence points to the assumption
• 12fell upon his knees and uttered a thanksgiving for his
• 13fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order
• 14stocks, removed from the church. At the farther end, facing
• 15displays elaborate effigies, while the altar-tomb is that
• 16on the spot in 1298, and there are remains of a Norman
• 17He divided his small following into two parties, entrusting
• 18crooked's a ram's horn, as the native would say—is situated
• 19valley of the River Coly, and three miles from the sea.
• 20rebuilt on the site of the old Guildhall. The iron-cased
• 21Obviously, the tide was rising; and, after seeking vainly
• 22an age second only to that of the Parish Church, and is
• 23Why, I said, then if he is a rogue, then I'm a rogue
• 24came over me. I thought of the honest, open face and the
• 25He ducked rapidly, almost touching the muddy water with
• 26Another interesting excursion from Lyme might be taken
• 27the air was already full of the golden dust that comes
• 28Good evening—good evening! he said, putting down the
• 29him sped the yellow figure, and right to the end. The seemingly
• 30front wall. This wall is pierced by two arches, with a
• 31Beach. The Duke landed about a hundred yards west of the
• 32became wildly enamoured of her. This love affair was opposed
• 33He paused for a moment, hoping to be able to lower the
• 34Here, where one can smell the smell of venerable wooden
• 35with Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, and deprived
• 36to point out the spot where Monmouth landed, but the great
• 37man more common interests than the cultured guests of Bwana
• 38a smugglers' retreat and a favourite spot for their operations.
• 39in the supremely beautiful character of Sophia, in Tom
• 40street situated above the mouth of the Char, the leading
• 41And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
• 42is said to bear, in the first syllable of its name, the
• 43When I was staying with the headmaster of Colyton Grammar
• 44parish charities of Colyton are still mostly derived from
• 45gruffly, explaining that he had always been fond of the
• 46In 1685 the town was again enlivened by the bustle of arms,
• 47was excavated to an extra depth of eight feet. An ancient
• 48From this inn the road runs straight ahead along the road
• 49of three-halfpence, two fowls, one of which, the Indian
• 50As far as I can judge from the result of my one opportunity