And, after having left behind two or three tumbledown huts built of clay and straw, we saw in the middle of a disconsolate heath the Cross of the Sablons.
Thanks to the giant's eagle-eye view, the woodcutter had no problem navigating the way to his tumble-down cottage, where, to his relief and delight, his beloved goat Petunia was waiting.
In the last open salon of the tumbledown red-light district an accordion group was playing the songs of Rafael Escalona, the bishop's nephew, heir to the secrets of Francisco the Man.
在摇摇欲坠的红灯区的最后个开放沙龙中,个手风琴乐队正在演奏拉斐尔·埃斯卡洛纳 (Rafael Escalona) 的歌曲,是主教的侄子,也是 Francisco the Man 秘密的继承人。
For all I know, this picture may still adorn the parlour of the tumbledown little house somewhere near the Quai de la Joliette, and I suppose it could now be sold for fifteen hundred pounds.
Only note that there are no tokens of poverty about them: no tumble-down picturesque; which, to tell you the truth, the artist usually availed himself of to veil his incapacity for drawing architecture.
There once lived a woodcutter with nothing more to his name than his tumble-down cottage, his trusty axe, and his pet goat, Petunia, a gentle, playful animal on whom the woodcutter relied for milk and cheese.
At the end of the lane was the blue glimmer of the river; to the left, standing in front of a clump of oaks and maples, he saw a long tumble-down house with white paint peeling from its clapboards.