As this is a sort of private way, the eyot itself being an adjunct of the ornamental grounds of Llangorren, he wonders whose boat it can be, and what its business there.
The eyot also is quartered, and carefully explored from end to end.
For, just below the outlying eyot is where he has met the pleasure-boat, and the old oarsman looked anything but equal to a long pull up stream.
I went to the eyotfor a boat, and my difficulties began.
Every one on the bank and eyot stopped to watch him--they knew him, he was training.
Another day Birdalone took her mate over on to Green Eyot and Rock Eyot, and showed him all the places she was used to haunt.
But now had the boat turned its head toward the ness of Green Eyot and was swiftly departing, so that Birdalone but half heard the last words of the witch-wife, and the sax fell flashing into the water far astern.
For the eyot indeed she loved, and deemed it her own, since never had her evil dream, the witch, set foot thereon.
But when wheat-getting was done, there was again rest for her body, and swimming withal and fishing from the eyot by the witch's leave.
Lo thou, they are taking the water, but they are making for the eyot and not our shore: son mine, this will mean a hazeled field in the long run; but now they will look for us to come to them therein.
Those in the centre of the eyot were black with swallows--like the black blight on beans.
It was a dark, dripping evening, and the thick osier bed on Chiswick Eyot was covered with wet leaf.
The Eyot crows seems to find a good living there, and never leave it till their young, which are annually hatched in a tree at some distance on the Middlesex side, can fly.
The reach opposite and including the eyot is the sole piece of the natural London river which remains interesting, and largely unspoilt.
A friend of mine, whose family has resided in Chiswick for several generations, used to go down the outside of the eyot and kill snipe, and also kill teal and duck in the stream which runs from Chiswick House into the river.
The centre of the eyot is yellow with patches of marsh-marigold in the hot spring days.
A salmon, perhaps the last, was caught between the eyot and Putney in 1812, though the rent of the fishery used to be paid in salmon, when it was worked by the good Cavalier merchant, Sir Nicholas Crispe.
In the summer the willows, full of leaf, and exactly appropriate to the flat lacustrine outline of the eyot and the reach, are full of birds, though the reed-warbler does not always return.
Moorhens evidently migrate up or down the river in spring and autumn, and occasionally dabchicks; otherwise their sudden appearance and disappearance on the eyot could not be accounted for.
Formerly Chiswick Eyot was their first alighting place when east winds were blowing, after the fatigue of crossing London; and persons still living used to go out and shoot them.
When the rope was finished one end was taken across to the eyot and firmly secured to one of the large trees; the other end was left for the present loose.
Before midday the troops were halted opposite the island, a lozenge-shaped eyot about a third of a mile in length and a hundred yards across, covered with rank vegetation and patched with one or two clumps of large trees.
His canoe was going rapidly on the current towards the eyot when a volley flashed from the undergrowth on the right bank, and he heard the shots strike the side of his vessel.
But the paddlers had not got into their swing when the rope, stretched tight between the fastening on the eyot and the running men, overtook them.
Year by year the Viking's raven Made that mystic spot his rest; Year by year within the eyot Brooded he as on a nest; And no man would ever venture To invade the lone domain Where in solitary scheming The grim bird of doom did reign.
And if Juliet had not leaned the other way so as to balance you, we might all have been in the water, and the swans would have got you, and you might never have seen Littlebourne Eyot again.
While they were in friendly talk with Mrs. Bosher's brother, the party on the eyot did not notice who was coming along the road from the village.
I am told that Eyot can't lose the first race, my lord," he said.
Dale, Oriental in phlegm now that Eyot was safely backed, was already unscrewing the luggage carrier.
One more embowered eyot comes round which the waters, parting, gently swirl.
Above Hythe Bridge, the way by Fishers Row is continued from the tip of the eyot across a little bridge, and thence runs for a space alongside an ancient wall.
Close to the bridge the perch-fisher is usually in great force, for around the eyot the perch dwells in numbers.
Dark brown of hue, and not unpicturesque of contour, Boyle Farm stands amid effective masses of foliage, its sloping lawn dipping down to the channel formed by a miniature eyot which screens it somewhat from view.
The banks are profusely timbered, and a bushy little eyot in the centre of the stream adds to the charm of the view.
The eyot is connected with the shores by the lock and weir, duly illustrated on another page from a favourite point of view.
Nearly opposite Dorchester there is an eyot adorned by a remarkably fine chestnut, while between Clifton and Day's Lock are others which bear little save the humble, useful osier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
