Don't you worry; no beach-comber like that can stand up long in front of me.
Once more it was flattened into a lap, given to a comber that felt out its fibres, removing with superhuman precision those for the finer fabric too short, thrusting it forth again in another filmy sliver ready for the drawing frames.
Look at it--the color of the tip of a comber in twelve fathom of water and a cross-tide.
When they reared they almost stood up straight, and when they scooped into it the wonder was that all the water taken aboard didn't hold her until the nextcomber could have a fair whack at her.
The ass can restrain neither his voice nor his flatus; we have already seen something similar in the story of Midas, where the comber of the ass feels he will burst if he is not permitted to relieve himself of the secret of the ass.
And when she tried to head up into it again, one comber bigger than its fellows reared up and slapped a barrel of water inboard.
Here and there at intervals uplifted a comber taller than its fellows, standing, just as it broke, like a green wall.
III There remains to be chronicled of that first term only the Comber Fight and, a little conversation, one windy day, with Galleon.
Comber paused in the preparation of the string whip that he was making, and his face was crimson.
Coats were taken off and Peter facedComber with the sensation of attacking a mountain.
Peter knew nothing about fighting at all, but Comber had long subsisted on an easy reputation and he was a coward at heart.
Comber then began to bite and tear and scratch, uttering shrill screams of rage and kicking on the floor with his feet.
I picked you up a starving beach-comber in Ponape, I thought you had at least enough sense to know that I am not a man to be trifled with.
As the wife of a confirmed beach-comber she had rather a hard time of it.
This involves breaking the lap again and the intricacy of the comber rests in the mechanism which it employs for joining the separated ends.
The first cotton comber was invented by a Frenchman of Alsace named Heilmann.
Too much praise cannot be given the Newtownards and Comber Yeomen Cavalry, who, conducted by Captains Houghton and Cleland, evidenced the greatest intrepidity during the whole of the action.
How was I to stop that comber on whose back I was?
She fetched up on the slack of the anchors at the moment a big comber smashed her shoreward.
For a few seconds Grahame held his breath, waiting for the shock; but she went on, and lifted her head buoyantly as the next comber rolled up.
His fierce impatience seemed to have inspired thudding engines and quivering hull, and he thrilled when a great, white-topped comber rolled up and swept her on.
Ah rin tae the door o' the alley-way and looks oot tae see a tremendous comber pilin' up ahead.
Eternity in the maw of a big Atlantic comber not so many years ago.
You must ha' swung her off an' steadied her while that comberhad you under.
His legs collapsed under him and he was caught in the following comber and rolled over and over in a broil of water and sand.
A smooth after a big sea; a momentary cessation of the tumult; a muffled shout from the slim figure at the rail--then into the back of a racing comber he dived!
In all probability, they had an oar short, and she rolled them out when a comber broke upon her in the darkness.
Just then a comber that broke on board most hove us over, and when we had dodged the next two there wasn't a sign of her.
You can teach yourself to be frightfully nimble with your fingers, and all the people who don't know will say: 'How divinely Lord Comber plays!
On its side, just below the window that is not made to open, it carries the legend that shows that it belongs to the Comber Arms, a hostelry so self-effacing that it is discoverable only by the sharpest-eyed of pilgrims.
And so Mr. Hermann sits down by Lady Barbara while Lord Comber plays for Miss Sylvia," he observed, with emphasis on the titles.
The fact that he was Michael Comber vexed his father--there was no statement of the case so succinctly true.
Behind them, separated from the rest of the church by an ornamental ironwork grille, was the Comber chapel, in which antiquarians took nearly as much pleasure as Lord Ashbridge himself.
To begin with that was rankly heretical; if you were a Comber there was no need to do anything with your life; life did everything for you.
What sort of a career for a Comber is a musical career?
No telling when a comber may come aboard, and it will carry you off like a chip.
Then, when some big comber came aboard, the ship would stagger under the blow, until it seemed as if she must be crushed.
But that bit of canvas caught the hurricane with tremendous force, bending the mast threateningly and giving considerable headway to the Mayflower, which was taking every comber over forward.
The next comber came full aboard, the water churning into a white roar or atomized in spray, and sweeping aft in cascades over the bales of tobacco, while the crew, soaked to the skin, held on for dear life.
Pascualo, upright, his feet glued to the deck, had his eyes on the waves ahead, studying everycomber carefully as it swept toward the vessel.
The enormous comber broke, like a mine exploding, with cataracts of foam, and water thrown on high in columns.
You promised, Frederic, before I consented to come with you, that you would desist from these extravagant flights.
With such ideas, his relations saw him perpetually pursuing some matrimonial project; but so easily frightened from his pursuit, that they relied on his succession with the most perfect confidence.
Seaward the crest of a roller suddenly fell with a thunderous crash, and the long white comber came roaring down upon the boat.
Carroll frowned when a comber struck the weather bow and a shower of stinging spray whipped his face.
It would need constant care, and if he failed, the next comber would, no doubt, break on board.
The comber to windward that should have lifted her up broke all over her; flinging the boat on deck upon the saloon skylight, and pouring inches deep over the coaming into the well.
Harness threads which are attached to a coupling that passes through the comber board.
For one instant it could be seen as a white rim above the wire, then some comber of a big shell struck it fair and spouted it black aloft.
Then it would show out, with gaps in it, and with some of it level with the field, till another comber would fall and go up like a breaker and smash it out of sight again.
