kittery

Updated: June 27, 2025

But the fish-flakes which once gave these inclines the effect of terraced vineyards have passed as utterly as the proud parterres of the old baronet; and Kittery Point no longer "makes" a cod or a haddock for the market.

William Dean Howells - Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life)

Then I went over from our summer colony to Kittery Point, and got a boat, and sailed out to have a look at these subordinate enemies in the first hours of their imprisonment. It was an afternoon of the brilliancy known only to an afternoon of the American summer, and the water of the swift Piscataqua River glittered in the sun with a really incomparable brilliancy.

William Dean Howells - Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)

In spite of the care of the proof-readers, and valuable literary assistance, it is feared that the continuity of the story has been destroyed by some accidental misplacing of chapters during its progress. How and what chapters are so misplaced, the publisher leaves to an indulgent public to discover. The Dodds were dead. For twenty years they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard.

Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales : With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

But the fish-flakes which once gave these inclines the effect of terraced vineyards have passed as utterly as the proud parterres of the old baronet; and Kittery Point no longer "makes" a cod or a haddock for the market.

William Dean Howells - Literature and Life (Complete)