"Blackwater" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the Blackwater and the Shannon seem to have enjoyed no special concessions. The men working them were pressed when-ever they could be laid hold of, and if they were not always kept, their discharge was due to reasons of ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson
... favourite excursions—of the longer ones which he now and then allowed himself—was to Danbury Hill, some five miles to the east of Chelmsford, one of the few pieces of rising ground in Essex, famous for its view over Maldon and the estuary of the Blackwater. Thither Snowdon and Jane accompanied him during the last summer but one, and the former found so much pleasure in the place that he took lodgings with certain old friends of Sidney's, and gave his ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing
... W. of Dublin, and took the crossroad from Tipperary to Limerick (30 miles), but the main road proceeds south-westerly to Charleville, 22 1/2 miles further, and thence leads due south to Mallow, on the Blackwater, and then south by east to Cork, 164 1/2 miles from Dublin, while another railroad has just been opened from Cork to Bandon, 18 3/4 miles still further south-west, making a completed line from Dublin ...
— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley
... instead of two sharp walls of cliff at the Chine's mouth, you might have—just what you have here at the mouth of this glen,—our Mount and the Warren Hill,—long slopes with sheets of drifted gravel and sand at their feet, stretching down into what was once an icy sea, and is now the Vale of Blackwater. And this I really believe Madam How has done simply by lifting Hartford Bridge Flat a few more feet out of the sea, and leaving the rest to her trusty tool, the water in ...
— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley
... march of fourteen miles, to a large spring. This must have been almost south of Douglas or Agua Prieta (Blackwater). ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... Between the rivers Blackwater and Crouch in Essex, is a great stretch of land, flat for the most part and rather dreary, which, however, to judge from what they have left us, our ancestors thought of much importance because of its situation, ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard |
