three-arched

Updated: May 16, 2025

In my judgment, a river flowing through the centre of a town, and not too broad to make itself familiar, nor too swift, but idling along, as if it loved better to stay there than to go, is the pleasantest imaginable piece of scenery; so transient as it is, and yet enduring, just the same from life's end to life's end; and this river Wear, with its sylvan wildness, and yet so sweet and placable, is the best of all little rivers, not that it is so very small, but with a bosom broad enough to be crossed by a three-arched bridge.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.