 | Charles Dickens - Boys - 1850 - 726 pages
...the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffetting with the water; rising with the hills, falling with...then drawn again to land. They hauled in hastily. I wondered if she ever read them now ; if she would ever read them more ! The house was so still, that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pages
...once dear friend, — Steerforth. Ham watched the sea until there was a great retiring wave ; when he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting...hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam, — borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the" ship. At length he neared the wreck. lie was... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 92 pages
...once dear friend, — Steerforth. Ham watched the sea until there was a great retiring wave ; when he dashed in after it, and in a, moment was buffeting...the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath tho foam, — borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship. At length he neared the wreck.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...color; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipated death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave...then drawn again to land. They hauled in hastily. Ho was hurt. I saw blood on his face, from where I stood ; but he took no thought of that. He seemed... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 pages
...it. I saw him do it, and thought I was goirig distracted, when his action brought an old rememberance to my mind of a once dear friend. Ham watched the...hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam. The distance was nothing ; but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting6 with the water : rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam. The distance was nothing ; but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - Readers - 1875 - 444 pages
...a little distance, to the latter, which he laid out himself, slack upon the shore, at his feet. 18. Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence...it, and, in a moment, was buffeting with the water. Now, he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...the once dear friend, — Steerforth. Ham watched the sea until there was a great retiring wave; when he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting...hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam, — borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship. At length he neared the wreck. He was so... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...was a great retiring wave, when with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was fastened round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment...then drawn again to land. They hauled in hastily. 20. He was hurt. I could see blood on his face, from where I stood ; but he took no thought of that.... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - Readers - 1883 - 366 pages
...great returning wave, when with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast around his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was...with the valleys, lost beneath the foam, then drawn to land again. They hauled in hastily. 22. He was hurt. I saw blood on his face from where I stood;... | |
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Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in... 
