Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 268
e sleepily silent. They are the Leviathansof their kind. Intermingling with them are innumerablebarges and fishing-boats, stretching far up the river,their masts and cordage seeming one vast spiders web.Not a single vessel is painted—from the huge sea-goingjunk to the narrow-prowed barge. Near the… … Art in Practical Life also golden. A steam-launch has in tow half a dozenbarges, which, with their unpainted woodwork, ricebales, and straw-coloured connecting cable, appearagainst the dark water as a knotted golden thread. Inthe endless perspective of junks the golden tone pre-dominates ; but it…
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