Excerpt Details
...h of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing the green summits, and below, the tossing waves breaking white against the dark rocks, and the distance becoming more and more hazy, in spite of the...

Full Text Search Details
...ds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showin...

Full Text Search Details
...f a sentence, and in poetry the first word of each line: In summer, on the headlands, The Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan, with his harp of gold, A...

Full Text Search Details
...e east caught sight of the hills of their native land. Here and there familiar headlands were pointed out by the pilot. On board there was mirth and g...

Full Text Search Details
... deep sea, so that there was no resting-place for a foot; it but round the headlands on either side, even within forty or fifty yards of that spot, Mo...

Full Text Search Details
...When such riding is prac- ticable, of course they like to see men take the headlands and furrows; but their hearts are not broken by the tracks of hor...

Full Text Search Details
... the Atlantic clear across from the shores of the New World upon the hoary headlands of Old Europe, which harbours more kings and rul- ers upon its se... ...ittle devoted band, and you feel that presently she will glide between the headlands and disappear. It is only at home, in dock, that she lies abandon...

Full Text Search Details
...like the prophet of old, “wrestled with the Lord” for my creation, for the headlands of the coast, for the darkness of the Placid Gulf, the light on t... ...staguana (the country, you may remember, of my seaboard tale), men, women, headlands, houses, mountains, town, campo(there was not a single brick, sto...

Full Text Search Details
...ainous verge Of the Hercynian forest. Yet, hail to you 215 Moors, mountains, headlands, and ye hollow vales, Ye long deep channels for the Atlantic’s ... ...still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, 45 In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes, Into the main Atlantic, that a...

Full Text Search Details
... were no harbours where a ship might ride, nor shelter of any kind, but only headlands, low lying rocks, and mountain tops. Ulysses’ heart now began t... ...and pain, shouting as he did so to the other Cyclopes who lived on the bleak headlands near him; so they gathered from all quarters round his cave whe... ...found it land locked under steep cliffs, with a narrow entrance between two headlands. My captains took all their The Odyssey – Book X 117 ships in... ...e saved this man from destruction. We kept a succes sion of scouts upon the headlands all day long, and when the sun was down we never went on shore ...

Full Text Search Details
...e, far from the beaten tracks, she glided, all white, round dark, frowning headlands, stole out, silent like a ghost, from behind points of land stret...

Full Text Search Details
...d swung above the howling ocean dreadfully. When lighthouses, on rocks and headlands, showed solitary and watchful; and benighted sea birds breasted o...

Full Text Search Details
...ust have been a perfect warehouse of reefs, positions, bearings, images of headlands, shapes of obscure coasts, aspects of innumerable islands, desert...

Full Text Search Details
...ULTATION is the going Of an inland soul to sea,— Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains, Can the sai...

Full Text Search Details
...ed down, so that there was no distinction of sky and sea. Over the white shoul- ders of the headlands, or in the opening of bays, there was nothing bu... ...beat of surf; one much broken in 134 Essays of Travel outline, with small havens and dwarf headlands; if possible a few islets; and as a first necess...

Full Text Search Details
...ar to see, when the air is windless, and all the peaks appear and the tall headlands and glades, and from heaven breaketh open the infinite air, and a... ...ally, till he hath covered the crests of the high hills, and the uttermost headlands, and the grassy plains, and rich tillage of men; and the snow is ... ...f Homer within row, and filled up the wide mouth of all the shore that the headlands held between them. Therefore the kings were going together, leani...

Full Text Search Details
...ay land without wetting our feet.” And the gods were kind. The first and second headlands were directly in line with the southwest wind; but once aroun... ...hou sand seals. The island was highest at its extreme southwestern point, the headlands and backbone diminishing regularly until the northeastern por...

Full Text Search Details
... the stool and desk; and with a memory full of ships, and seas, and perilous headlands, and the shining pharos, he must apply his long-sighted eyes to...

Full Text Search Details
...y dawn was turning to a dull, roseate gold at the core of the sunrise. The headlands of Magdalena Bay stood black against the pale glow; over- head, t...

Full Text Search Details
...d waved his hand again. The schooner passed out to sea be- tween the steep headlands that shut in the bay, and at the same instant Karain passed out o...

Full Text Search Details
...t declared the coast to be that of Djigheli Bay, and Arthur recognised the headlands whither the unfortu- nate tartane had drifted to her destruction....