... coloured velvet. Behind this, a large white ostrich-feather followed the outline of brim, tucked under it being a bunch of blackberries, with autumn briar foliage in greens and dun-browns. Another good hat was of violet satin straw trimmed with dark velvet ...

... not yet battened down under a concrete esplanade. Turf, from which every tinge of green had dried, patched with gorse and blackberry bushes and bare grey spots of shingle and sand, made a wide band of uneven ground, which followed the line of the sea, inland ...