 ... the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and...  Autumn Holidays of a Man of Business - Page 95by John Ashton (of Manchester.) - 1876 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 394 pages
...ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps,...trusty Saxon serfs, and free Norse rovers with their Westward Ho! I. 5 golden curls, and dark Silurian Britons from the Swansea shore , and all the mingled... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 394 pages
...ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps,...trusty Saxon serfs, and free Norse rovers with their Westward Ho! I. 1 golden curia, and dark Silurian Britons from the £"•-. : • shore, and all the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 608 pages
...ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland ; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps, eight hundred years, since the first Grenvile, cousin of the Conqueror, returning from the conquest of South Wales, drew round him trusty... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1864 - 232 pages
...heats of the midland ; and pleasant:; it has stood there for now, perhaps, 800 years, since the fe Grenvil, cousin of the Conqueror, returning from the...Wales, drew round him trusty Saxon serfs, and free Nor* rovers with their golden curls, and dark Silurian Britons fron; the Swansea shore, and all the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley - 1877 - 528 pages
...ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland ; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps,...rovers with their golden curls, and dark Silurian I5ritons from the Swansea shore, and all the mingled blood which still gives to the seaward folk of... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1879 - 146 pages
...history. Long ere "the first Grenville, cousin of the Conqueror, returning from his conquest of S. Wales, drew round him trusty Saxon serfs, and free...dark Silurian Britons from the Swansea shore," and established that connection between Bidef ord and the Grenvilles which endured nigh seven centuries,—long... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1880 - 292 pages
...history. Long ere "the first Grenville, cousin of the Conqueror, returning from his conquest of S. Wales, drew round him trusty Saxon serfs, and free...dark Silurian Britons from the Swansea shore," and established that connection between Bidef ord and the Grenvilles which endured nigh seven centuries,... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1883 - 170 pages
...history. Long ere " the first Grenville, cousin of the Conqueror, returning fiom his conquest of S. Wales, drew round him trusty Saxon serfs, and free Norse rovers with their golden cuds, and dark Kilurian Britons fiom the Swansea shore." and established that connection between Bidef... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1883 - 170 pages
...cousin of the Conqueror, returning from his conquest of S. Wales, drew round him trusty Saxon seifs, and free Norse rovers with their golden curls, and dark Silurian Britons fiom the Swansea shoie." and established that connection between Bidef ord and the Grenvilles which... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1885 - 620 pages
...ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland ; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps,...returning from the conquest of South Wales, drew round him trnsty Saxon serfs, and free Norse rovers with their golden curls, and dark Silurian Britons from the... | |
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