 | Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 414 pages
...met, begrimed with soot ! The very sheep blackened ! not a lamb even with a lock of white wool, or a clean face. Lucy said that it was the most frightful...beautiful here to be seen ; but it was wonderful, it was a sari of sublime. He could not help feeling a great respect for the place where steamengines seemed... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 412 pages
...met, begrimed with soot ! The very sheep blackened ! not a lamb even with a lock of white wool, or a clean face. Lucy said that it was the most frightful...beautiful here to be seen ; but it was wonderful, it was a s»rt of sublime. He could not help feeling a great respect for the place where steamengines seemed... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 296 pages
...they met begrimed with soot ! The very sheep blackened ! not a lamb seen with a lock of white wool or a clean face. Lucy said that it was the most frightful...nothing beautiful here to be seen; but it was wonderful. He could not help feeling a great respect for the place where steam-engines seemed to abound, and,... | |
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... for there was none. It was a dead flat, the atmosphere laden with the smell of coal and smoke. The grass, the hedges, the trees, all blackened. The hands and faces of every man, woman, and child they met, begrimed with soot! The very sheep blackened!... 