 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...set out one day to pass the seven-mile sands, as they had frequently been used to do, (for no body in the village knew them better than the old man did); when they were about half-way over, a thick fog rose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected: the old man was puzzled... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...set out one day to pass the seven-mile sands, as they had frequently been used to do, (for no body in the village knew them better than the old man did) ; when they were about halfway over, a thick fog rose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected : the old man was puzzled... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the seven-mile sands, as they had frequently been used to do ; (for nobody in the village knew them better...did) when they were about half-way over, a thick fog rose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected: the old man was puzzled... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...set out one day to pass the seven-mile sands, as they had frequently been used to do, (for no body in the village knew them better than the old man did); when they were about halfway over, a thick fog rose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected: the old man was puzzled;... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the seven-mile sands, as they had frequently been used to do (for nobody in the village knew them better...; when they were about half-way over, a thick fog rose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected : the old man was puzzled... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - Lancashire (England) - 1830 - 216 pages
...horseback, set out one day to pass the seven mile sands, when the tide was out, as they had frequently used to do ; for nobody in the village knew them better than the old man did. When they were about half way over, a thick fog arose, and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Drawing - 1832 - 356 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the seven-mile Sands, as they had been frequently used to do, (for nobody in the village knew them better than the old man did.) When they were about half way over, a thick fog arose, and as they advanced, they found the water much deeper than they... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1836 - 336 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the Seven Mile Sands, as they had frequently been used to do : for nobody in the village knew them better than the old man did. When they were about half way over a thick fog rose, and as they advanced, they found the water much deeper than they expected.... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the Seven Mile Sands, as they had frequently been used to do ; for nobody in the village knew them better than the old man did. When they were about half way over, a thick fog rose ; and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected.... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...horseback following, set out one day to pass the Seven Mile Sands, as they had frequently been used to do ; for nobody in the village knew them better...did. When they were about half-way over, a thick fog rose ; and as they advanced they found the water much deeper than they expected. The old man was puzzled;... | |
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... sands) told me in his dialect a moving story. How a brother of the trade, a cockier (as he styled him), driving a little cart with two daughters (women grown) in it, and his wife on horseback following, set out one day to pass the... 
