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... appeared that nearly all the passengers were bound for the beach , which was about a mile distant , and many other persons were flock- ing in from the neighboring country . There were sev- eral hundreds of them streaming off over ...
... appeared that nearly all the passengers were bound for the beach , which was about a mile distant , and many other persons were flock- ing in from the neighboring country . There were sev- eral hundreds of them streaming off over ...
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... I saw were all that were drowned . " Not a quarter of them , " said he . " Where are the rest ? " " Most of them right underneath that piece you see . " It appeared to us that there was enough rubbish to THE SHIPWRECK . 5.
... I saw were all that were drowned . " Not a quarter of them , " said he . " Where are the rest ? " " Most of them right underneath that piece you see . " It appeared to us that there was enough rubbish to THE SHIPWRECK . 5.
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Henry David Thoreau. It appeared to us that there was enough rubbish to make the wreck of a large vessel in this cove alone , and that it would take many days to cart it off . It was sev eral feet deep , and here and there was a bonnet ...
Henry David Thoreau. It appeared to us that there was enough rubbish to make the wreck of a large vessel in this cove alone , and that it would take many days to cart it off . It was sev eral feet deep , and here and there was a bonnet ...
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... appeared when we were abreast of them , and , excepting that there were extensive vacant spaces , seemed to be doing remarkably well . This , we were told , was the only use to which such tracts could be prof- itably put . Every higher ...
... appeared when we were abreast of them , and , excepting that there were extensive vacant spaces , seemed to be doing remarkably well . This , we were told , was the only use to which such tracts could be prof- itably put . Every higher ...
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... appeared to know each other when they were strangers , they were so sim- ple and downright . They were well met , in an unusual sense , that is , they met as well as they could meet , and did not seem to be troubled with any impediment ...
... appeared to know each other when they were strangers , they were so sim- ple and downright . They were well met , in an unusual sense , that is , they met as well as they could meet , and did not seem to be troubled with any impediment ...
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afterward appeared ashore Atlantic bank Barnstable Barnstable County Bartholomew Gosnold Bayberry beach beach-grass blackfish Blue and gold boat Boston breakers CALIFORNIA called Cape Cod Captain cast Champlain clam Clark's Island coast Cohasset desert distance Eastham edge Edition England feet high fish Greenland gulls half a mile harbor heard hills hollows horizon hundred Illustrated inhabitants Island John land light-house looked mackerel morning Mourt's Relation Nauset Nauset Lights never night ocean Pamet River perchance perhaps Pilgrims plants Plymouth Poems Poetical pond Port Royal Portrait Provincetown Provincetown Harbor Race Point River roar rocks rods round sail sailors salt sand sand-hills says schooner seen ship shipwrecked shore sometimes storm story summer surface tell thought tide told town trees Truro vessel voyage walked waves weather Wellfleet whale wind wood wreck wrecker
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Page 173 - Strewn with crabs, horse-shoes, and razor-clams, and whatever the sea casts up, — a vast morgue, where famished dogs may range in packs, and crows come daily to glean the pittance which the tide leaves them. The carcasses of men and beasts together lie stately up upon its shelf, rotting and bleaching in the sun and waves, and each tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore...
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Page 57 - Latitude 41° 33'. pointing out the Spots, on which the Trustees of the Humane Society have erected Huts, and other places where shipwrecked Seamen may look for Shelter.
Page 9 - We afterwards came to the life-boat in its harbor, waiting for another emergency,— and in the afternoon we saw the funeral procession at a distance, at the head of which walked the captain with the other survivors. On the whole, it was not so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonely place, it would have affected me more. I sympathized rather with the winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of...