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" ... terminating just where, after clearing the sea, it overhung the gravelly beach at an elevation of nearly ten feet. Adown we both dropped, proud of our success ; up splashed the rattling gravel as we fell ; and for at least the whole coming week —... "
An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education - Page 68
by Hugh Miller - 1854 - 537 pages
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 36

1855 - 594 pages
...passage was accordingly made. The two children stood alone in the Doo-cot, and enjoyed their success. "The first few hours were hours of sheer enjoyment....found a great deal additional to wonder at on the slope beneath the precipices, tnd along the piece of rocky sea-beach in front. We succeeded in discovering...
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My Schools and Schoolmasters: Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1859 - 580 pages
...not a great many days before, and we both inferred, that if we but succeeded in getting round non, it would be quite a pleasure to wait among the caves...creeping, dwarf bushes, that told of the blighting influences of the sea-spray ; the pale yellow honeysuckle, that we had never seen before, save in gardens...
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Men who Have Risen: A Book for Boys

James Hogg - 1859 - 346 pages
...proud of our success ; up splashed the rattling gravel as we fell ; and for at least the whole coining week — though we were unaware of the extent of our...told of the blighting influence of the sea-spray; the pale yellow honeysuckle, that we had never seen before, save in gardens and shrubberies; and on a deeply-shaded...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...we were unaware of the extent of our good luck at the time, the marvels of the Doocot Cave might bo regarded as solely and exclusively our own. For one...precipices, and along the piece of rocky sea-beach in front. The long telescopic prospect of the sparkling sea, as viewed from the inner extremity of the cavern,...
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Men who Have Risen: A Book for Boys

James Hogg - 1859 - 350 pages
...of sheer enjoyment. The larger cave proved a mine of marvels ; and we found a great deal additionai to wonder at on the slopes beneath the precipices,...told of the blighting influence of the sea-spray; the pale yellow honeysuckle, that we had never seen before, save in gardens and shrubberies; and on a deeply...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 36-37

1854 - 562 pages
...just where, after clearing the sea, it overhung the gravelly beach at an elevation of nearly ten feet. The first few hours were hours of sheer enjoyment....to wonder at on the slopes beneath the precipices, — we detected the sweet-scented woodroof of the flowerpot and parterre, with its pretty verticilate...
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Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 316 pages
...borrow emphasis from the phraseology of Carlyle, ' they were our own and no other man's.' The first ten hours were hours of sheer enjoyment. The larger cave...in front. We succeeded in discovering for ourselves by creeping, dwarf-bushes, that told of the blighting influences of the sea-spray, the pale yellow...
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Independent First[-sixth] Reader, Volume 2

James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...emphasis from the phraseology8 of Carlyle," " they were our own, and no other man's." 5. The first ten hours were hours of sheer enjoyment. The larger cave...piece of .rocky sea-beach in front. We succeeded, by creeping, in discovering dwarf-bushes, that told of the bright influences of the sea-spray ; the...
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My Schools and Schoolmasters: Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1869 - 610 pages
...now, it would be quite a pleasure to irait among the caves inside until such tune as the fall of tho tide should lay bare a passage for our return. A narrow...creeping, dwarf bushes, that told of the blighting influences of the sea-spray ; the pale yellow honeysuckle, that we had never seen before, save in gardens...
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The School Board Readers: Standard V : Adapted to the Requirements of the ...

1872 - 264 pages
...reached the outer point of the promontory ; and then doubling the cape on a still narrowing margin, we found the ledge terminating just where, after clearing...precipices, and along the piece of rocky sea-beach in front. The long telescopic prospect of the sparkling sea, as viewed from the inner extremity of the cavern,...
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