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... sound . As I looked over the water , I saw the isles rapidly wasting away , the sea nibbling voraciously at the continent , the springing arch of a hill suddenly inter- rupted , as at Point Alderton , what botanists might call premorse ...
... sound . As I looked over the water , I saw the isles rapidly wasting away , the sea nibbling voraciously at the continent , the springing arch of a hill suddenly inter- rupted , as at Point Alderton , what botanists might call premorse ...
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... sound in a shell . It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by , fill- ing the whole air , that of the sea dashing against the land , heard several miles inland . Instead of having a dog to growl before your door , to have an Atlantic ...
... sound in a shell . It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by , fill- ing the whole air , that of the sea dashing against the land , heard several miles inland . Instead of having a dog to growl before your door , to have an Atlantic ...
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... sounds with which it was mingled . " " The effect of such preaching , " it is said , 66 was that his hearers were several times , in the course of his min- istry , awakened and alarmed ; and on one occasion a comparatively innocent ...
... sounds with which it was mingled . " " The effect of such preaching , " it is said , 66 was that his hearers were several times , in the course of his min- istry , awakened and alarmed ; and on one occasion a comparatively innocent ...
Page 57
... sound . of the surf , or , you might say , the moaning of the sea , is heard all through it , as if its author were the sole sur- vivor of a shipwreck himself . Of this part of the coast he says : " This highland approaches the ocean ...
... sound . of the surf , or , you might say , the moaning of the sea , is heard all through it , as if its author were the sole sur- vivor of a shipwreck himself . Of this part of the coast he says : " This highland approaches the ocean ...
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... sounds so much like the ocean , though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this . The attention ... sound of many waves , dashing at once , whether gently or violently , Toλupλoloßolos to the ear , and , in the ...
... sounds so much like the ocean , though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this . The attention ... sound of many waves , dashing at once , whether gently or violently , Toλupλoloßolos to the ear , and , in the ...
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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...