And thus how decisive was that growth of the property, the acquisition of that last lot of marshland which allowed the whole plateau to be cultivated!
And once again the estate of Chantebled was increased; this time by all the marshland whose ponds and whose springs remained to be drained and captured on the west of the plateau.
As Lepailleur would not part with his enclosure on any reasonable terms, Seguin had to content himself for the time with selling Mathieu the selectedmarshland on the plateau.
Every now and then through the stillness came the sharp crack of a rifle from the snipers lying hidden in the little stretches of woodland and marshland away on the right.
It seemed to be coming in this direction so I followed along, pulled up short of the house, climbed on the top of the bank and saw that extraordinary illumination from the marshland on the other side.
Perhaps it might be so, but Jack believed he was not far wrong in believing that Professor Marshland had only mentioned the fact to excuse his evident desire to go ashore and look around.
But it gave Jack considerable satisfaction and confidence just to know that Herman Marshland was near by.
On reaching the ridge I could not help shifting my gaze to glance at the wide marshland below us, so strikingly unlike any scene my young eyes had looked on.
About two hundred yards past my cottage the road, which from the village ran perfectly straight, took a sharp turn inland, leaving the coast abruptly on account of the greater stretch of marshland beyond.
Come to bed at once miss and you shall have some hot wine" said Marshland "step into the drawing room sir" she added seeing Cyril waiting in the passage.
Then Helen thought she would go out and buy a few things, so calling Marshland she said "I am going out now Marshland, and lunch will be at 1.
Marshland is still living though her health is gradually becoming weaker.
Once in between the beautiful cool sheets with the breeze blowing in at the open window stirring the dainty white muslin curtains, Helen dropped into a dull heavy sleep, but she was so restless that Marshland dared not leave her.
Marshland uttered a stifled cry, but recovering her presence of mind she instantly raised Helen in her arms.
I will sir" returned Marshland and then she and Helen stood at the door the latter waving her handkerchief to the dear father who was never more to enter his happy home in Kenalham.
If Marshland or I heard that bell we should know the safe was being robbed and come up at once.
Marshland had her doubts as to the robbery, but to quiet Helen she went downstairs to ascertain.
It was soon answered by a rought untidy looking servant girl, with no cap and a dirty cotton dress, whom Marshland eyed with intense disgust.
Why on earth does'nt Marshland send up the silver tea pot?
Marshland helped all she could but being old and stiff she could do little but sit in the kitchen and moan at the loss of her beloved master's goods.
On hearing the story, Lord Beaufort said that Helen was to be taken at once to his house and that Marshland should accompany her.
The slovenly creature" criedMarshland "Mr. Sheene has evidently had no practice in choosing his domestics.
Helen and Marshland got hastily into the hansom, to the old servant's inexpressible delight who had never ridden in anything but the customary Kenelham dog cart, and the waggon she had recently quitted.
Little flurries of stinging snow whirled through the air, and the wind shrieked across the marshland where the bear was still hunting for food.
In another minute Nip, the last remaining dog of Sam's pack, caught the scent, and with a bay that echoed through the tangled thickets and across the dark pools of the marshland woods, dashed along the fresh trail.
But by April, 1827, he must have been back in Norwich, according to Knapp, to see Marshland Shales at the fair.
Yes, mad as a marshland hare, with all her old pleading ways so deepened that she has won Ned clean over to her side.
Though a marshland is always open it is still curiously secret.
This mysterious marshland does not sustain me, and I sink into its depths with a bubbling groan.
We came at last to a country house of "pale red and yellow marble," half farm, half villa, lying away from the white road at the point where it begins to decline somewhat sharply to the marshland below.
On the rising path, the marshland behind him, standing looking at her in the light of the early morning, was Jean Nesmy.
Andre with eyes fixed on the distant marshland was seeing in imagination a white town, with narrow streets, and a troop of horsemen emerging from a crenulated gateway, its arches echoing with the ring of their horses' hoofs.
In the Marshland Fen there is a considerable tract of ground which consists of 'detached portions' of these and other villages.
Two miles out at sea the big guns flashed and boomed, and ahead of them on the marshland path the footsteps of the man they had seen in the rays of the searchlight were dying away, so quickly had he outpaced the lingerers.
At that Reggie described fully how he and Enid had been "resting" in the bushes at the side of the marshland path, and how at short intervals two men, whom it was too dark to recognize, had passed by.
In the meanwhile Leslie Chermside and his companion had reached the seclusion of the marshland path, at the same time plunging into a more private conversation than was advisable on the frequented sea-front.
The village of Oulton lies on the border of the marshland about a mile from the most easterly point of England, and within hearing of the beating of the billows of the wild North Sea.
Gurney did not then remember him as the youth whom he had met by the side of the marshland stream; but he took him to the library, and showed him the books of which he had spoken many years before.
Borrow’s home, which was little more than a cottage, stood on the side of a slight rising bank overlooking Oulton Broad, and was sheltered from the winds of the sea and marshland by a belt of storm-rent pines.
The secrets of themarshland wastes have been whispered in his ears by the wind in the willows, and have been sung to him by the sighing sedge.
For years the youths of Eastern England have had to leave the hamlet hall, the village rectory, the marshland farmstead, and the cottage home, and wander far and wide to gain their daily bread.
Dave and Roger stood on an elevation of ground surveying the unfinished bridge--or rather chain of bridges--which spanned a river and the marshland beyond.
Soon they reached the Mexican shore, at a point where there was a wide stretch of marshland with not a building in sight.
At last Ward Porton gained a point where one of the foundations of the bridge rested on comparatively solid ground, with the river behind and a wide stretch of marshland ahead.
But all this had taken time, and now the two chums saw that Ward Porton had beached his boat and was running across the marshland beyond.
He saw the little grove of bare trees, and the marshland stretching out beyond to the bare sea.
They walked single file along the little stretch of marshland which served as a footpath.
And more than once we have seen wild duck, and a drake in a gorgeous shimmer of colour fly across the marshland by the head of the river.
The sea spreads inland in a broad pale sandy bay, with marshlandgrown over with sparse reedy grass, and covered with pools of salty water, and channels full of sandy mud.
Marshland butt are also in good number in the marshes between norwich & yarmouth.
Over themarshland none can see Your scarlet pennon fair; O, leave the Easterlings alone, Because of my golden hair.
We are introduced to the Marshland at the beginning of the prose legend, "The Leech of Folkestone.
Ere long the black duck would sweep above the marshland tinged with shooting green, and, trailed by his mate, find his old nesting-ground.
With the lowering of the late afternoon skies a pair of canvasbacks came skimming on strong, swift wings high over the sunken bog and tangled marshland toward the white beaten water of the open.
Steve Marshlandasked to be pardoned because of his youth.
A pack-train, bound for Salt Lake, had no less than eighty thousand dollars in dust in its charge, and Plummer had sent out Dutch John and Steve Marshland to hold up the train.
The evidence of tumuli and weapons goes to show that the Euskarian people of Sussex occupied the coast belt and the combes of the Downs from the Chichester marshland to Pevensey, but that they did not spread at all into the Weald.
