Cape Cod |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 65
Page 1
... half a dozen times on my way ; but having come so fresh to the sea , I have got but little salted . My readers must expect only so much saltness as the land breeze acquires from blowing over an arm of the sea , or is tasted on the ...
... half a dozen times on my way ; but having come so fresh to the sea , I have got but little salted . My readers must expect only so much saltness as the land breeze acquires from blowing over an arm of the sea , or is tasted on the ...
Page 4
... half concealed by the flesh , about its swollen neck ; the coiled - up wreck of a human hulk , gashed by the rocks or fishes , so that the bone and muscle were exposed , but quite bloodless , merely red and white , with wide - open and ...
... half concealed by the flesh , about its swollen neck ; the coiled - up wreck of a human hulk , gashed by the rocks or fishes , so that the bone and muscle were exposed , but quite bloodless , merely red and white , with wide - open and ...
Page 8
... half a mile , there were an old man and his son collecting , with their team , the sea - weed which that fatal storm had cast up , as serenely employed as if there had never been a wreck in the world , though they were within sight of ...
... half a mile , there were an old man and his son collecting , with their team , the sea - weed which that fatal storm had cast up , as serenely employed as if there had never been a wreck in the world , though they were within sight of ...
Page 12
... half a mile from the shore , which sounded as if they were in a barn in the country , they being between the sails . It was a purely rural sound . As I looked over the water , I saw the isles rapidly wasting away , the sea nibbling ...
... half a mile from the shore , which sounded as if they were in a barn in the country , they being between the sails . It was a purely rural sound . As I looked over the water , I saw the isles rapidly wasting away , the sea nibbling ...
Page 14
... half an hour now to remember that it was ever warm . There were the tawny rocks , like lions couchant , defying the ocean , whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel . The water held in their ...
... half an hour now to remember that it was ever warm . There were the tawny rocks , like lions couchant , defying the ocean , whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel . The water held in their ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
Page 172 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then, heigh, ho*! the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp, As friend remembered not.
Page 172 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 20 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related. With 61 Illustrations. Crown 8vo., 6s.
Page 21 - MEDITATIONS ON DEATH AND ETERNITY. Translated from the German by Frederica Rowan. Published by Her Majesty's gracious permission.
Page 14 - PIPER'S (RN, MD) Operative Surgery. Illustrated by over 1900 Engravings. 1 vol. 8vo. $ 5.50. Ticknor and Fields. 15 PRIOR'S (JAMES) Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke, with Specimens of his Poetry and Letters, and an Estimate of his Genius and Talents compared with those of his great Contemporaries With Portrait.
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...
Page 167 - Merchants, never to be wrought out of that Trade, and fit for any other. I will not deny but others may gaine as well as they that will use it, though not so certainly, nor so much in...
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...