The water slithered up along her sharp bow and flung itself in spray over the crouching forms of the cowboy and the Chinese.
The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we reached Torhead--the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs.
When they were discovered, only a ledge of the rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for help amidst the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from windward, covered them.
The old mosstroopers sometimes wore a spray in their steel caps as a protection against witchcraft and bad luck.
Andrew stood in the cockpit, with the spray rattling like shot on his oilskins, his night glasses steadied on the cabin top as he searched the sea ahead.
The men wore oilskins, sea-boots and sou'westers, but the spray that swept the bank in a thin mist found out the openings in their clothing, which the gale distended.
Rankine's crew hung out a stern light as their vessel left the yacht, and Whitney, getting down in the cockpit, tried to dodge the spray while she rolled and tumbled across the high beam-sea.
Clouds of spraydrove across the boat, striking the canvas and blowing out to lee under the boom, but some fell short and splashed upon Whitney's lowered head.
Every now and then the straining storm-jib plunged into a sea that curled in foam across the bows, throwing showers of spray into the hollow of the staysail.
There was so much spray flying that I couldn't see the punt astern, but the drag on the tow-lines showed that she was there.
The seas began to curl as the ebb met the freshening wind, and little showers of spray splashed into the straining canvas.
When he glanced to windward the spray lashed his face, but he distinguished a rolling steamer some distance off.
It's a mere wash of spray to shooting London Bridge which is done every day by hundreds of persons, and often by the most delicate ladies in the land.
The breakers extended nearly half a mile; while the water within their line was white with foam, the air above them was so far filled with vapor and spray as to render the land beyond hazy and indistinct.
Our efforts dash like spray against the rock,--the spray is broken, the rock remains.
Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing.
The nest was ingeniously constructed to prevent the spray from wetting the interior, the moss being so worked over the entrance as to form an admirable verandah.
Then, while the female lurks timidly within, he mounts a spray and yields an outburst of music, piercing and earnest, if not too sweet.
The singer posts in a high fir tree, that all may hear, and the notes pour out rapidly, crowding close upon each other, till the whole company is lost in a cloud of spray at the end of the ditty.
No red males were seen, though many gray males were singing in the early mornings from the topmostspray of some balsam.
Close behind, though I could not spare time to look back, I could hear the animal plunging in pursuit, and I was drenched with the spray of her splashings.
He struggled toward us knee-deep in the current, dashing up the spray before him, his eyes as wide as saucers.
I threw the door open again, but was greeted with such a fierce rush of wave and spray that I shut it as quickly as I could.
She turned slightly away, and buried her face in a spray of roses from the bush that festooned the porch.
A broken spray of pine needles rustled along the roof, or a pine cone dropped with a quick reverberating tap-tap that for an instant startled her.
Use the sulphur in the early morning, when the dew will help to hold it on the leaves, or else spray the plants with water beforehand.
If the pest appears, spray the rose plants daily with a hose as suggested above.
Nor can it be too strongly emphasized that the daily use of a powerful but finely divided spray from the hose will make life on the rose plant miserable for practically all of the parasites.
Tobacco smoke is an excellent weapon, or, if a spray is found more convenient to apply, a solution of 4 oz.
At the high tides it was still worse; the spray then beat upon his very windows, and he felt doubtful if some day he would not be drowned even on his own hearth.
One could not see far out; the spray continually raised by the whirlwind, drew the curtain too closely too allow of one's seeing far, or seeing much, but all that was to be seen was sufficiently frightful.
Though the surf still roared and across the shoal flung its spray and upper wash over them, the wind died down and the stars came out.
The Malahini was being plunged down and swept frequently, and what they breathed was air and spray and water commingled.
Since 1922 my invention consisted in eliminating the highly complicated compressor and in injecting directly such a highly diffused fuel spray so that a quick first ignition could be depended upon.
By means of rotating the air column around the cylinder axis, fresh air was constantly led along the fuel spray to achieve completely sootless burning-up.
When she drew near the spray on which they were perched on they would go again, and she could mark their conical crests as again they plunged forward in arrow-like flight, only to perch again as before.
She was standing on the topmost stair, slightly above him, one hand toying with a spray of blossoms depending from the vines above her head.
Fountains were playing in the sunlight, their glistening spray tinted with rainbow lights.
The spray of him seems to hang in the air a while, and I suppose moonlight may lend it the look of a sail.
Whether the myth was true or false, Stephen Cory lived gaudily in Ben's fancy, strutting the quarterdeck, thrusting a beaky face like Joseph Cory's to the leapingspray and the enormous winds.
The wheels were exposed and bare; and they whirled and dashed their spray about the decks at random.
These keep the hands from being wet by the sprayand by the drip from the paddle.
The builder now takes water in his mouth and spirts it in a spray along the mud.
Sometimes a drawstring closes the hood tightly around the face and prevents the spray from entering.
As we turned to leave this region of blinding spray and mysterious shadows, Ernest repeated, in his most melodious accents, a passage from Schiller's magnificent poem of the diver.
And it bubbles and seethes, and it hisses and roars, As when fire is with water commixed and contending; And the spray of its wrath to the welkin upsoars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending.
Upon a tall bramble a single spray of white shone out, the bush evidently having miscalculated the season and having imagined that it was still summer.
Overhead, as I lay looking upwards, the canvas showed of a dull leadenish color, blackened completely at whiles by the dash of spray and water.
To windward, I perceived an enormous wall of spray bearing down upon us, and I heard again the shrill screaming, pierce through the roaring.
The moonlight, shining through the tossing spray of the fountain, made traceries of shadow on the gleaming folds of her garments.
I gazed at her, and then at the floatingspray of the tall fountains, and down at the pools, where the water-lilies were rocking softly in their sleep on the velvet surface of the moon-lit water.
I believe I must have lain there for an hour, and, as I remember, I was just dozing into sleep when I was roused by a draught of cold air and by distinctly feeling the spray of the sea blown upon my face.
Nine chiefs of the Greeks he slew, and fell upon the spearmen and scattered them, as the spray of the waves is scattered by the wandering wind.
Then they rowed down the swift sea stream, while the wave of the whirlpool now rose up, till the spray hid the top of the rock, and now fell, and bubbled with black sand.
The walls of them were painted with pictures of flying fishes, above a clear white sea, in which fish of many kinds were swimming, with the spray and bubbles flying from their tails, as the sea flows apart from the rudder of a ship.
He told the man at the helm to steer under the great rocky cliff, on the right, and to keep clear of the whirlpool and the cloud of spray on the left.
