He could but dimly see the beginning of the outstretching wall of concrete, but plainly enough he could hear the combers thundering over the crest of it.
The sea was all a white turmoil and furiouscombers rolled up astern.
A quarter of a mile off, the long, white-topped combers rolled across the bay and then broke on the north shore of the island in a belt of foam.
The morning was bright, the Trade-breeze fresh, and outside the shelter of the Isleta head big foam-tipped combers rolled south.
The wind was fresh and outside the shelter of the rocks the combers were white and big, but Don Erminio could handle a small sailing boat.
The sea had got up and long, white-topped combers rolled after the ship.
The sea sparkled in the moon and long regular combers rolled up from the north.
The quartermaster was a mystic, but when the big white combers chased the cargo launch one could trust him with the steering oar.
Although she rolled horribly across the combers the Trade-breeze piles up, she shipped no heavy water.
Long, white-topped combers ran in the dark, the schooner rolled, lifting her wet side out of the foam.
While she rolled and plunged at anchor Kit lay in her bottom and watched the angry combers crash upon the beach.
Mossamedes rode high above water and the gale pressed upon her side; the combers lifted her, and screw and rudder could not get proper hold.
The launch laboured across the combers some distance off.
At the base of the dark declivities the combers were bursting, and the spume towered on the gale like grey smoke.
The earnings of wool-combers was high, reaching from 10s.
Hove to under this short canvas, our decks were comparatively free of water, while the Ghost bobbed and ducked amongst the combers like a cork.
No shipping masters or beach-combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.
Twice they sighted the lonely light on Cape St. John, and twice they were driven back to flounder in the big combers and rips of Burdwood Bank, hove-to under scanty canvas.
The combers were crashing over the weather rail in solid cascades, and the scupper-ports were not large enough to carry it off.
The Kelvinhaugh, built by the mile and cut off by the yard as she was, wriggled her long body through the sea, and her blunt bows shouldered the east-bound combers and she staggered to their tremendous impact.
Around its splintered base the mighty combers of a world-around wind-hounding smashed themselves in acres of foam, roaring and hissing in sullen fury at the implacability of the rock which forever bars their passage.
Then with a glance at the surf seething and roaring on the beach to leeward and swirling in toppling combersaround them, she added hysterically.
The tide had now nearly run out, but when they turned the corner at Carmel Point they would meet the flood stream and the big combers the gale drove up channel.
He must keep her running and let the comberssplit against her pointed stern.
They had drifted off-shore, and now they had opened up the channel the combers leaped on board.
She was swept by the sparkling showers, but the showers were warm, and the combers were not often steep enough to flood her deck.
To drive the canoe to windward was heavy labor, and while she lurched slowly across the combers the sun got low.
The comberswere getting large and their hissing tops surged by some height above the gunwale, but so long as he could keep her before them they would not come on board.
She took it like a duck, except where two or three of the most broken combers let her down too sharply for her bows to rise to meet the next in turn.
This is not a hard series of riffles to run if you have no bad luck, but an upset in the upper riffle would leave you at the mercy of the lower, which is a savage tumble of combers filling most of the channel.
Pulling hard to the right, I gave good berth to a line of badly messed up combers with not enough foam on them to cover all of the black-rock ledge beneath.
More, we were some considerable distance from the sea which was still raging over a quarter of a mile away where great white combers struck upon a reef and spouted into the air.
It was of a long, low land, a curving shore of which the ends were out of the picture, whereon grew tall palms, and where great combers broke upon gleaming sand.
For another half hour she hung on in the rain and darkness, battered by heavy combers that all but broke her hold.
If I gave the old bus enough gas to get up a flying speed, these combers would batter the hull in--I'd never be able to get her onto her step.
Individual combers emerged from it, and the sloop alternately reeled over them with a white surge boiling at her bows and plunged into the hollows.
The combers were getting bigger with the rising tide and the sloop plunged into them viciously, flooding her forward deck, and jarring her cable.
The long swell had rapidly changed into tumbling combers that rolled down upon the laboring sloop out of the dark.
The Chink's Head was a name the beach-combers gave to a wretched inn off the Rue Bouterie, kept by a one-eyed Chinaman, where for six sous you could sleep in a cot and for three on the floor.
The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it.
And they stared at the great ships that came rocking in from distant ports, their sides gray with the salt from the big combers which they had battled with.
They whipped up white combers that sprang on her flanks and tried to crush her, and the wind played a devil's lament in her rigging.
Everything was a sea of green, with white-capped combers tracing long lines of white against the deep green.
Unmindful of the seas that were again breaking over the deck as the ship shifted her position, he dashed aft, drenched to the skin and battered this way and that by the angry combers as they roared curling aboard.
During the morning several great combers had surmounted the port bow and rushed aft, carrying along everything loose or that could be loosened, and banging against the companion door with the force of a runaway horse.
Against this helpless and partially water-logged mass the combersrushed incessantly, hiding it every few seconds with sheets of spray, and often sweeping it with deluges.
The tide was higher now, the combers nearer, and he had but one free hand with which to cling to the base of the bluff when the enveloping waters rose about him.
The yellow-green of the sea was set off by astonishing areas of clearest cobalt blue, and the flying spray from combers breaking for miles out on the North Shoals, caught the sunlight in a glory of rainbow mist.
The wind had died down and only the muffled beating of the great combers on far seaward bars was audible, but--of a sudden she was bolt upright in bed, listening with every sense alert.
The pale-green combers that were breaking for miles out on the shoals, made it impossible to think of using the whale-boat.
From under the grey curtain of the driving rain combers of muddy green raced in, spouting high in wind-torn fury against the rocks and rolling swiftly toward her to fling themselves roaring at her.
A filmy spray cloud hung about the entrance, and beyond it big, gray combers tipped with froth came rolling up in long succession.
As it ran to windward it broke up the regular, breeze-driven waves into short, foaming combers with hollowed breasts and tumbling tops which flung up wisps of spray.
Then he glanced astern at the combers that followed them, and was by no means comforted by the sight.
Nobody seemed inclined to talk, and there was only the roar and splash of the combers behind them as they drove wildly on, until when dusk was close at hand the dim shadow of a hill rose up suddenly on one side of them.
Then as he watched the ceaseless shoreward rush of the big combers and looked up at black rock and climbing pines, a strange delight in the new life he led crept into his heart.
The sloop, which had sheered off a little farther, was sailing abreast of her with lowered peak about a hundred yards away, rising and falling with the long combers which, however, broke less angrily.
To run a small craft before a breaking sea in the dark is a very severe test of nerve, and it is, perhaps, worse when the combers still come foaming after her after the wind has somewhat fallen.
The combers still came surging after them crested with glittering froth, though they no longer broke about the rail, and there was a constant gurgling and splashing of water inside the lurching vessel.
The rancherie was hot and the dull roar of the combers on the reef came throbbing in and made him restless.
It lay in the shadow of the rock, and there was no moonlight on the ghostly combers which came seething down upon it.
The launch was wet with spray, which flew up in clouds as she lurched over the white-topped combers that burst in a chaotic spouting on a black volcanic reef not far away from her.
There he stood, the back-wash of the mighty combers hissing about his knees as he looked seaward beneath the hollow of his hand at a spot some two hundred yards away, where one by one their long lines were broken into a churning yeast of foam.
Already the sea was rising in crested combers which broke with the noise of thunder and the fury of the wind was insensate.
The commotion of the wind shrieking in the rigging and the horrid crash of the toppling combers were enough to convince a landlubber that the vessel was doomed to founder.
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