Excerpt from The Barrys On this hand and that, as far as Frank could see, and in front of him about a mile in width, the lough lay cold and dreary beneath the low arch of a sombre sky. A stony shore bordered it up from it ran the bare fields and crooked hedges; above it the hills reared their barren crowns here were belts of trees, there bleak patches of forest; in the distance a square tower stood out against the sky; far off was a range of mountains, nearer a great rock rose high above the water; about midway over an ...
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Excerpt from The Barrys On this hand and that, as far as Frank could see, and in front of him about a mile in width, the lough lay cold and dreary beneath the low arch of a sombre sky. A stony shore bordered it up from it ran the bare fields and crooked hedges; above it the hills reared their barren crowns here were belts of trees, there bleak patches of forest; in the distance a square tower stood out against the sky; far off was a range of mountains, nearer a great rock rose high above the water; about midway over an island, fringed with trees through which showed the front of a thatched cottage, lay in its loneliness; on the farther shore stood a rough stone pier, from which a continuation of the Lismahee road, you might fancy, went on and was lost in the gloom of a huddled plantation every where was cheerlessness, loneliness, no sound but the rushing of the wind and the flap of the waves, no life, no colour, no beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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