 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 pages
...from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along Yhe naked rafters, which, when the master chanced to be...some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen of Ross had carried on a trade in peats for ages with the Saxons of the... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...low, long, straw-thatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters,...some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen of Ross had carried on a trade in peats for ages with the Saxons of the... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 pages
...low, long, strawthatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters,...some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen of Ross had carried on a trade in peats for ages with the Saxons of the... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...low, long, straw-thatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above; and stretching along the naked rafters,...frequently to lie a helm, or oar, or boathook, or even a foresail,—the spoil of some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen... | |
 | 1856 - 352 pages
...unlathed roof above ; aiw stretching along the naked rafters, which, when the master chanced to hг absent for a few minutes, gave noble exercise in climbing,...boathook, or even a foresail — the spoil of some hapfe* peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen of Row hado,trried on a... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 586 pages
...above ; while stretching along the naked rafters, which, when the master happened to be absent fur a few minutes, gave noble exercise in climbing, there...some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the frith. To account for the exhibition of these marine trophies in a building devoted to education, it... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 566 pages
...low, long, strawthatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters,...master chanced to be absent for a few minutes, gave noblt^ exercise in climbing, there used frequently to lie a helm, or oar, or boathook, or even a foresail,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 612 pages
...an unlathed roof above ; while stretching along the naked rafters, which, when the master happened to be absent for a few minutes, gave noble exercise in climbing, j there used frequently to lie a helm, or oar, or boat-hook, or even a foresail — the spoil of some... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 580 pages
...low, long, straw-thatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters,...opposite side of the Firth. The Highland boatmen of Boss had carried on a trade in peats for ages with the Saxons of the town; and as every boat owed a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 pages
...low, long, strawthatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters,...some hapless peat-boat from the opposite side of the Frith. The Highland boatmen of Ross had carried on a trade it peats for ages with the Saxons of the... | |
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The building in which we met was a low, long, straw-thatched cottage, open from gable to gable, with a mud floor below, and an unlathed roof above ; and stretching along the naked rafters, which, when the master chanced to be absent for a few minutes,... 
