It is a backwash from Han Wuti's China, that goes west with Chang Ch'ien to the Yueh Chi, and south with them into India.
So now to follow the great march of the cycles eastward; with this warning: that next week we shall glance at a little backwash in the other direction, and see the disembodied soul of this now closed phase of human culture 'go west.
Round them the backwash of waves seethed white and hissing.
He could be seen casting the lee main braces off the pins while the backwash of waves splashed over him.
Forward went the stick and he plunged down the backwash of Larkin's diving plane, his motor roaring its cadenced challenge.
To my amazement, and just as I was expecting the impact, the canoe only gracefully shaved the rock, the backwash which took place along the rocks shifting us once more toward the middle of the stream.
Twenty feet below him as they topped it, Hugh looked over upon the backwash of the preceding wave which was being dragged into the billow which bore them and was growing higher as it rose to its ruin.
In that tumble and scurry of surf it might easily be that strong arms could drag out of the fury of the backwash whatever was cast there.
Therefore, an ideal backwash is set up, which accounts for all the wreckage strewed on the beach.
She was docked here by a backwash which does not occur very often, judging by the herbage growing among the sand.
It was feasible, with care, to climb down to sea level, but the huge rollers breaking over the reef sent a heavy backwash against the cliff.
The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history.
They must drive her in before the backwash flung her off, and for some moments he labored with weakening arms and heaving chest.
The row of canoes swung towards the bank, but the backwash caught them and it looked as if they would not swing far enough.
The backwash of civilization in the Orient is not our concern.
How often we were near our deaths I cannot think, but time and time again the backwash of a breaker came over our rail in a green mass.
I climbed out of the backwash of the last breaker, and dipped down behind a rock, high and dry on the sands.
Every time I essayed to plant my legs on the beach, the irresistible backwashswept me down, rolling me head over heels, and in my exhausted condition this filled me with despair.
Then the current strove to wrest my dipped blade away, as with the paddles on one side held fast by sinewy wrists the craft turned as on a pivot, and lurching on the backwash whirled past the stone, after which the cry was: "Drive her all!
A crash, half drowned by the roar of the sea, indicated that he had got on board, and the boat went out on the backwash that rolled down the harbour like an angry flood.
They had no mechanical help; while the boat plunged in the foaming surf the ponderous lump of iron must be lifted by muscular effort and when one struggles against an angry backwash one cannot lift much.
There were two rowboats trolling outside the heavy backwash from the cliffs.
The Backwash of War" was suppressed by the British, French and American governments.
La Motte The Tuberculosis Nurse The Backwash of War The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse By Ellen N.
We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War--and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War.
There is not much current in the backwash at any part; enough to have carried it off had the drowning been done elsewhere.
By thebackwash it must be making for the dock and stair; the men in it, or one of them, for the Court.
A backwash of brilliance picked out the black-white-and-red Jack of Germany, fluttering from a short pole-mast sternwards.
Another and more normal backwash came in the nick of time, and the boat retreated to her earlier position.
They swung from the eddy below the falls and shot into the backwash of the river as it swept converging toward the first grim rocks that shouldered the current to a rippling wedge of white.
He pointed to where two of the crew were standing, knee-deep in the backwash of the stream, tugging at a balky timber that threatened to hang up the logs that charged at it and swung off in the current again.
Who of us that witnessed the crazy gold stampede to Kootenay and the crazier stampede to Klondike could guess that the backwash of those foolish tidal waves of gold-mad humanity would people the Northwest?
Outside the furious mid-stream rush of the current, dark eddies revolved in angry circles and their backwash weltered along the bank.
They were very near the man in the water and when he spun round like a cork in the revolving backwash the moonlight touched his wet face.
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