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".....the
old watering-place herein called "Budmouth (Weymouth)" still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland." Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native 1878 |
| "On the dry
sand sat, in little groups, the older people, reading, sewing, sleeping,
talking to one another, while on the wet sand the children, building their
castles and digging their canals were far too absorbed ... |
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... and content to
exchange more than spasmodic shouts to one another. The free play of so many
radiant bare limbs against the sparkling foreground-water and the bluer water
of the distance gave to the whole scene a marvellous heathen
glamour." |
