What is "ellston"

Usage examples of "ellston".

Edward Ellston Parks, or Calico Parks—whichever you want to call him—gave it to me to classify, then turn over to a museum.

Since I wished to be wholly alone, I rented (to the delight of the incredulous owner) a small house some distance from the village of Ellston - which, because of the waning season, was alive with a moribund bustle of tourists, uniformly uninteresting to me.

The place had been built about ten years previously, but on account of its distance from Ellston village was difficult to rent even during the active summer season.

Though actually less than a mile below Ellston, it seemed more remote.

I generally stayed but a short while upon the streets of Ellston, though sometimes I went into the place for the sake of the walk it provided.

Since I had never seen anything like it, I judged that it represented some fashion, now forgotten, of a previous year at Ellston, where similar fads were common.

Their frequency excited alarm among the timid, since the undertow at Ellston was not strong, and since there were known to be no sharks at hand.

I had eaten my luncheon at Ellston, and though the heavens seemed the closing lid of a great casket, I ventured far down the beach and away from both the town and my no-longer-to-be-seen house.

In a mood half of exultant pleasure from resisting the rain (which streamed from me now, and filled my shoes and pockets) and half of strange appreciation of those morbid, dominant skies which hovered with dark wings above the shifting eternal sea, I tramped along the grey corridor of Ellston Beach.

In Ellston I heard of no recent drowning or other mishap of the sea, and found no reference to such in the columns of the local paper - the only one I read during my stay.

Night had settled over Ellston and the coast, and a pile of soiled dishes attested both to my recent meal and to my lack of industry.