A Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay: And the Watering Places in Its Vicinity .... |
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... consists of five streets , with about two hundred and thirty houses , for the greater part well built and comfortable , and nearly all are occupied by a hardy , temperate , and courteous population , estimated at 1270. It contains a ...
... consists of five streets , with about two hundred and thirty houses , for the greater part well built and comfortable , and nearly all are occupied by a hardy , temperate , and courteous population , estimated at 1270. It contains a ...
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... consisting not less in colour than in feature . The emerald of the green sward here wears a more delicate freshness , and the luxuriant foliage of the trees a brighter green than elsewhere . The villas peeping out their leafy screens ...
... consisting not less in colour than in feature . The emerald of the green sward here wears a more delicate freshness , and the luxuriant foliage of the trees a brighter green than elsewhere . The villas peeping out their leafy screens ...
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... consists of one square battlemented tower , built upon a rock , formerly insulated , the tide flowing completely round it ; but on the landward side there has been for many years past a broad passage , connecting it with the road . The ...
... consists of one square battlemented tower , built upon a rock , formerly insulated , the tide flowing completely round it ; but on the landward side there has been for many years past a broad passage , connecting it with the road . The ...
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... consisting of about a dozen houses , principally occupied by shipwrights . Shipbuilding was formerly carried on at Green Island , and small crafts , pleasure yachts , and lighters , are still occa- sionally built and repaired upon a ...
... consisting of about a dozen houses , principally occupied by shipwrights . Shipbuilding was formerly carried on at Green Island , and small crafts , pleasure yachts , and lighters , are still occa- sionally built and repaired upon a ...
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... consists of a long pole , one end of which a man in the stern of the boat holds in his hand , keeping the other end submerged , on which is a strong hoop of iron , the lower edge being as sharp as a knife , and this slips along the sand ...
... consists of a long pole , one end of which a man in the stern of the boat holds in his hand , keeping the other end submerged , on which is a strong hoop of iron , the lower edge being as sharp as a knife , and this slips along the sand ...
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Page 257 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 237 - Sword; was appointed ambassador to the court of Lisbon in 1806, to Sweden in 1817, to Constantinople in 1820, and to Russia in 1825 ; is author of " Poems from the Portuguese of...
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Page 21 - COMB back, come back together, All ye fancies of the past, Ye days of April weather, Ye shadows that are cast By the haunted hours before ! Come back, come back, my childhood ; Thou art summoned by a spell From the green leaves of the wild wood, From beside the charmed well ! For Red Riding Hood, the darling, — The flower of fairy lore.
Page 33 - In the descent southward, near the bottom, one is forced to slide down a sort of thatch, composed of furze, long grass, and juniper. St. Donard, a disciple of St. Patrick, is said to have spent the life of a hermit on this mountain, and built a cell, or oratory, on the top of it, towards the close of the fifth century.
Page 160 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 255 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 14 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
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