The muddy river rose and fell with the distant tide.

At rare intervals a collier discharged its cargo on the mouldering quay, or an empty barge took in a load of hay.

One bold house advertised, in a dirty window, apartments to let.

There was a lawyer in the town, who had no occasion to keep a clerk; and there was a doctor who hoped to sell his practice for anything that it would fetch.

The directors of the new railway, after a stormy meeting, decided on offering (by means of a Station) a last chance of revival to the dying town.