There are all grades in Biarritz,-visitors and home-stayers, rich and poor,- "From point and saucy ermine, down To the plain coif and rustic gown."
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
Of the eight days five were what are called unpleasant; but the unseasonable cold, which drove the stayers in the house to huddle about the fire, struck the mosquitoes with a torpor which made strolling in the woods a double luxury; while the rain was chiefly of the showery sort, such as a rubber coat and old clothes render comparatively harmless.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
It was to see that the town was deserted by these late-stayers that the messenger rode, crying his warning as did the messenger at the bursting of the Johnstown dam twenty-odd years ago.
"Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon or, The Longest Shots on Record"
Victor Appleton