And above all what fascinates her is the river-the river itself, at once so like and so unlike the Thames she knows above Richmond where she goes boating with her brothers' friends, with the young men with whom she seems on such intimate terms and of whom she knows so extraordinarily little, and who treat her, very properly, as something fragile, to be cared for, respected....
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Who was the new comer who seemed so intimate with her, that she followed him on his boating excursions, and thus granted him what she had ever refused to Everhard her friend and helper?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Those who like boating and sea-fishing will find plentiful opportunity here to indulge in both.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton