gate-beams

Updated: May 17, 2025

The children watched the whole operation from shore, now and then lending their small weight to push open the long gate-beams. 'Dolph, too, watched from shore; suspiciously at first, afterwards with a studied air of boredom, which he relieved by affecting, whenever the heel of a stern-post squeaked in its quoin, to mistake it for a rat an excuse for aimless snuffling, whining and barking. And Mrs.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - True Tilda