 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 1160 pages
...nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He vas so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes...water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone ! Some eddying fragments I... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Boys - 1850 - 736 pages
...wreck. He was so near, that with one more of bjs vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it,—when, a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone! Some eddying fragments I saw... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 570 pages
...for leaving L im more free — or so I judged from the motion of his arm — and was gone as iefore. a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone ! Some eddying fragments I... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 92 pages
...with the valleys, lost beneath tho foam, — borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that...of water moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, — and the ship was gone ! They drew him to my very... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pages
...foam, — borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the" ship. At length he neared the wreck. lie was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes...of water moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, — and the ship was gone ! They drew him to my very... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 1280 pages
...borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance wa« nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the...water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound. and the ship was gone ! Some eddying fragments I... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 526 pages
...alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a greac retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those...water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone ! Some eddying fragments I... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...holding at a little distance to the latter, which he laid out himself slack upon the shore, at his feet. The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking...water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone ! Some eddying fragments I... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 384 pages
...falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in toward the shore, borne on toward the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance...of water moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone! Some eddying fragments I saw... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 652 pages
...neared the wreck. He was so near, that, with one more of his vigorous strokes, he would be elinging to it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, — and the ship was gone I They drew him to my very... | |
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I stood; but he took no thought of that. He seemed hurriedly to give them some directions for leaving him more free — or so I judged from the motion of his arm — and was gone as before. And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling... 
