river-bend

Updated: June 4, 2025

Farther on there came a weed-grown field or two, then a row of operatives' houses, the showy gables of the "Eldorado" road-house the only building in Westmore on which fresh paint was freely lavished then the company "store," the machine shops and other out-buildings, the vast forbidding bulk of the factories looming above the river-bend, and the sudden neatness of the manager's turf and privet hedges.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree