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Our march was truly painful, and I repented more than once of having yielded to the idea; besides the misery of walking along these shelly rocks, which presented points like the sharp teeth of a saw, tearing our shoes and even our skin, the sea, in some of the lower places, was so high as to bar our passage, and we were obliged, in the interval between two waves, to rush across, with the water to our chins.
You sit tight, till I round them all up. Lend a hand, Farrington." So Roger poked out the unwilling creatures from their lairs, and Bill assisted them to their destination, while the two girls looked on. "Good work!" cried Patty as the last shelly specimen disappeared beneath the bubbles. "Now, they must boil for twenty minutes. They don't mind it NOW."
The town of Sorrento itself overhangs the sea, skirting along rocky shores, which, hollowed here and there into picturesque grottoes, and fledged with a wild plumage of brilliant flowers and trailing vines, descend in steep precipices to the water. Along the shelly beach, at the bottom, one can wander to look out on the loveliest prospect in the world.
And the time he’d run off to see the circus come into town, he and Shelly ... Cousin Jeff, Cousin Merry, they had tried to beg him off from Grandfather’s punishment that time, not that they had succeeded.
They resembled an enamelled decoration, the body consisting of a hard shelly coat of dark blue colour, symmetrically spotted with white, and it was nearly circular, being armed with six sharp projecting points.* The latitude of this camp was 29 degrees 28 minutes 34 seconds South.
Yes, Sunday it was along all the beautiful shores of Maine netted in green and azure by its thousand islands, all glorious with their majestic pines, all musical and silvery with the caresses of the sea-waves, that loved to wander and lose themselves in their numberless shelly coves and tiny beaches among their cedar shadows.
It has a splendid view of the park. I know she'll love that. You know how she hates 'bricks and mortar." Elinor nodded, picking up her letter again. "You don't seem at all keen about David," she began, when Judith broke out excitedly, holding up her letter. "Mrs. Shelly wants me to come with Miss Jinny and stay over Sunday.
To have run between the shelly host and the river, so as to cut off its retreat, would have been sheer lunacy, at which Luna herself by that time shining superbly would have paled with horror, for the men would have certainly been overthrown and trampled under foot by the charging squadrons.
The shelly strata, also, have occasionally suffered denudation, and the removed portions have been replaced by clay." Out of 224 species of univalves obtained from the Minchinhampton beds, Mr. Lycett found no less than 50 to be carnivorous.
The Isle of Devils Sir George Somers and party found "the richest, healthfulest and pleasantest" they ever saw. Robert Walsingham and Henry Shelly discovered two bays abounding in excellent fish; these bays are still called by their names.
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