stone's-cast

Updated: May 6, 2025

Within that cottage dwell Nigel and Winnie, and a brown-eyed, brown-haired, fair-skinned baby girl who is "the most extraordinary angel that ever was born." It has a nurse of its own, but is chiefly waited on and attended to by an antique poetess, who dwells in another cottage, a stone's-cast off, on the same green knoll.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Blown to Bits: or, The Lonely Man of Rakata