Budmouth

As a rule, the word Budmouth meant fascination on Egdon.

The Return of the Native 1878

The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called "Budmouth" still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland.

The Return of the Native 1878

You know we are trying in Budmouth to raise some money for your sufferers; and the way we have thought of is by a dramatic performance.

A Changed Man 2006

“My father has told me that you have sent off one of the men with a late letter to Budmouth,” cried Grace, coming out vivaciously to meet him under the declining light of the sky, wherein hung, solitary, the folding star.

The Woodlanders 2006

A note posted by her in Budmouth Regis at daybreak has reached me this afternoon — thanks to the fortunate chance of one of the servants calling for letters in town today, or I should not have got it until tomorrow.

A Changed Man 2006

He therefore purported to cross the Channel to Budmouth by the steamer on a day he named, which she found to be three days after the time of her present reading.

The Woodlanders 2006

“They have written to me again about that practice in Budmouth that I once negotiated for,” he said to her.

The Woodlanders 2006

Here he rapidly penned a letter, wherein he withdrew once for all from the treaty for the Budmouth practice.

The Woodlanders 2006

Your husband would have gone away to Budmouth to a bigger practice if it had not been for this.

The Woodlanders 2006

“If you can get this posted at a place some miles away,” he whispered, exhausted by the effort of writing — “at Shottsford or Port – Bredy, or still better, Budmouth — it will divert all suspicion from this house as the place of my refuge.”

The Woodlanders 2006