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  • On Chiswick Eyot, which is entirely planted with osiers, there are standing at the time of writing six stacks of bundles set upright.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

  • At last she wandered down to the sandy bight of the lake and stood gazing on Green Eyot, where the osiers and willows were grown wild and long in all these years, and she said that she would swim over to it on the morrow.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Rock Eyot, and showed him all the places she was used to haunt.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Green Eyot and was swiftly departing, so that Birdalone but half heard the last words of the witch-wife, and the sax fell flashing into the water far astern.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Shortly to tell it, her tree-bole floated with her past the outer ness of Green Eyot, and came ashore in that same sandy bight where erst she was wonted to make her body ready for the water.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • So then without more ado Birdalone slipped into the water, which lay before her as calm and plain as a great sheet of glass, and fell to rowing with her arms and her legs as though she were but swimming from Green Eyot to the mainland, as so oft she had done in the other days.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Green Eyot, and was minded to swim over thither, as oft she did.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Rock Eyot, she found a straight creek or inlet of the water across her way; and the said creek ran right up into the alder thicket; and, indeed, was much overhung by huge ancient alders, gnarled, riven, mossy, and falling low over the water.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Another day Birdalone took her mate over on to Green Eyot and

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • After this she went once and again fishing on to Green Eyot by the bidding of the dame, who went not again to the shore with her.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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