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LOVE AND AN UMBRELLA

... ravages of the storm vexed them but little. A report came from somewhere about Tory Island of a strange apparition in the sky the night of the storm, like a queer, unchancy sort of boat sailing and a bare mast stuck up out of it. That was the last was ever ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3900 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

AT THE SPOTTED LAMB

... townsman loves the country best, he said. Your countryman only knows that the mire is on his boots, however fine the sky. That night he walked into the inn-kitchen and sat down on the settle by the fire, within the shelter of the great screen of oak ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4358 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

DOES THE EARTH REVOLVE ON ITS AXIS?

... The earth spins uniformly and re gularly from west to east, as may be inferred from the uniform rotation of the starry sky at night. This was proved by the experi ment made by Foucault. He showed that a long pendulum when once set swinging changed the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 441 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

TOPICS OF THE TIME

... from a perfect duck of a nest of wool, leather, and astrachan What will you wear in the sky to-night, oh, Daphne, my dove What will you wear when we fly to-night beyond the above Any old thing might be well allowed, far as we '11 be from the gaping crowd ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 724 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... Eve. By Olivia Maitland -Davidson. (Constable.) An Uncensored Diary. By E. D. Bullitt. Stanley Paul.) Rovers of the Night Sky. By Night Hawk, M.C. (Cassell.) Lures of Life. By Joseph Lucas. (Fisher Unwin.) The Glamour of Dublin. By D. L. Kay. (Dublin ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1106 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

... (and London is the world in winter-time except for those strangely constructed individuals who prefer a grey sea, a black sky, and night at four p.m.) 110 other entertainment is so completely right and opportune as the Grand Extra Mammoth Hardy Annual panto ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 939 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

MISCELLANEOUS

... aspect of the Casino Gar dens and the brilliant sea, is being painted a subdued grey, with Chinese-red bordering and a blue sky. At night it will be illuminated with lanterns of stained glass in Eastern colours. In the Restaurant des Ambassa- deurs, a wonderful ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 808 | Page: 116 | Tags: none

THE STAGE

... it, had the floor of the house. Mr. Norman Long, who always looks as hale as smiling morn itself, and as rosy as a red sky at night, entertained as cheerily as ever at the piano and with narrative. That was the big feature of the opening bill. Stanelli ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1144 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review