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Updated: June 29, 2025
H. Tupman, in the Ernest, swam round the Bight on the west side of the Warren, passing the ships anchored therein, and hugging the west shore of the Exe, paused finally under the lodge at the further end of Starcross at 5.45 p.m., having, in logic swum the distance of two-and-a-quarter miles in twenty-three minutes.
While the relieving pilot put on his gloves and lit his cigar, his partner, the retiring pilot, would say something like this 'Quarter twain' is two-and-a-quarter fathoms, thirteen-and-a-half feet. 'Yes, I thought it was making down a little, last trip. Meet any boats? 'Met one abreast the head of 21, but she was away over hugging the bar, and I couldn't make her out entirely.
While the relieving pilot put on his gloves and lit his cigar, his partner, the retiring pilot, would say something like this 'Quarter twain' is two-and-a-quarter fathoms, thirteen-and-a-half feet. 'Yes, I thought it was making down a little, last trip. Meet any boats? 'Met one abreast the head of 21, but she was away over hugging the bar, and I couldn't make her out entirely.
The thoroughly magnificent forms of cornice thus developed by necessity in military buildings, were adopted, with more or less of boldness or distinctness, in domestic architecture, according to the temper of the times and the circumstances of the individual decisively in the baron's house, imperfectly in the burgher's: gradually they found their way into ecclesiastical architecture, under wise modifications in the early cathedrals, with infinite absurdity in the imitations of them; diminishing in size as their original purpose sank into a decorative one, until we find battlements, two-and-a-quarter inches square, decorating the gates of the Philanthropic Society.
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