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And the juniper round them closes, And the bays amid them twine, To guard and to praise their beauty; And the gulls above them cry, And the stern rocks stand on duty, Where the surf beats white and high.
The surf runs racing the young salt wind, Shouting without a fear Over reef, bar, cliff and scaur, Where you and I lie near.
I want to go back and hear the surf Come beating in at night, Like the washing of eternity over the dead.
The bay is gray with the twilit spray And the loud surf springs.
At a little distance lay one of the English frigates, the surf breaking over her, her fate sealed.
We watched them anxiously; for although the wind was off-shore, the swell which rolled in threw up a heavy surf on the bar, which at times makes the entrance to that river very dangerous.
Three of the slaves at a time were then allowed to come up, and were lowered into the boat, from which the whale-boat took them through the surf to the barge, and that when full ultimately carried them to the corvette.
At last we got so near the surf that the boatswain determined to put the boat about and stand out to sea.
Too soon the roar of the surf reached our ears, and it became fearfully probable that the ship and her rich cargo, with all on board, would become the prey of the waves.
A strong gale from the westward had been blowing for several days, and as we came off the river a tremendous surfwas seen breaking across the bar at its mouth.
With all her sails set, through the roaring surf she dashed, then rose on the summit of a sea, and down she came, striking heavily, her ropes flying wildly and her sails flapping furiously in the breeze.
It wasn't only the surf and the rocks they had to reckon on," said Harley Greenoak.
For a minute or two both men smoked on in silence, their gaze resting meditatively on the white lines of surf storming against the base of the iron cliffs at no great distance on the port beam.
Now, looking at that surf yonder, it is, if possible, a still greater one.
There was no hurry; for it had been decided by the older men that no boat could be put to sea through the surf then rolling in.
As they reached the summit of the shingle-bank, they could see in front of them the black line of the sea, and on the beach, where the white of the snow and the white of the roaring surf merged together, a group of men.
Indeed, so formidable did the appearance of the surf at length become that the captain ordered the rest of the boats to heave-to, while we in the gig went ahead to reconnoitre and inspect the condition of the bar.
In the course of the night, the wreck came drifting to the strand, with the surf thundering around her, and shortly afterwards bilged.
Short, drenching showers of rain fell, one after the other, like the strokes of a lash; a wind came up out of the sea, and one could hear the thunder of surf on the headlands.
It was "thick as bags," with a rising wind running in from the sea, and the surf breaking and hissing within hearing to leeward.
The warning of the surf sounded in every man's ears.
The surf caused by the rough weather, to which he chiefly attributed his failure, would not have proved an insuperable obstacle had the ships' crews been exercised in landing troops under similar circumstances.
The 19th was spent in attempts at landing, which the surf and the energetic play of the repaired batteries rendered fruitless.
Since that time the surf had gnawed steadily toward the base of the tower until in 1935, the site was finally reached by the surf.
Flinging a line aboard, they began the rescue of the half-frozen sailors, four times running the gantlet of ice, rocks, and surf until all 24 men were saved.
Or they become a Web page, available to whoever will surf by.
The more they want or accept a bureaucratic machine to handle their problems, the more TV programs they watch and the more electronic games they play, the more they surf the infinite world of networks?
Ted felt quite proud of himself as the boat rode through the surf and up on the beach.
But the fishermen were shouting orders one to another, and the surf was booming on the sandy beach, so Ted's voice wasn't heard.
As the surf and the undertow was getting too rough for even skillful swimmers to be out in it, the bathers came from the water, and, after a time, Teddy and Janet went back to their cottage.
There was so much surf that they had to wait for a favourable moment and then had to pull hard to get in before the next wave broke.
In landing on the shore where it is stored they nearly lost their boats, the surf was so heavy.
There was too much surf for the boats to land on this beach.
When they reached a point where the sloping rocks rose high above surf and spray, they dismounted, leaving the Indian servants to tether the horses.
The roar of the surf came refreshingly to their hot ears.
The surf roared and fought the white sand hills of the distant horn; on that nearest the town stood the fort, grim and rude, but pulsating with military life, and alert for American onslaught.
Suddenly the roar of the surf came to her ears, and she threw out her arms with a cry, dropping her head upon them and sobbing convulsively.
The hoarse boom of thesurf came from the beach; the bay was uneasy, and the tide was high: the earth had quaked in the morning, and a wind-storm fought the ocean.
The surf was roaring for it on the sands of Havre.
He gazed aloft still rowing apace, And through the whirled surf he knew her face.
Pettit and Harry Underwood when they started into the surfwith me.
We can take the bulliest trips, way out to deserted sand islands, where the surfis the best ever.
I know exactly what happened out there in the surf a little while ago.
We generally had to exercise the greatest care in leaving or boarding the ship, and yet with it all the sea was quite unbroken save for the line of surf along the beach.
As a heavy surf was breaking on the reef fronting the houses, we rowed up the bay and landed by a small hut, beside which was a well of good water, and from thence reached the village by a path leading through scrub and many screw-pines.
Frequently the surf in the bay was sufficient to promise at the least a thorough wetting when leaving shore for the schooner in our own boat.
We got ashore near the village at a spot sheltered from surf by a projecting reef.
All round the head of the bay white surf rolled on the flat sandy beach, but there was a fair landing-place within the point, protected by a reef, and free from breakers.
The roar of the surf was plain, and sometimes they could see the white lip of a wave as it spun up the beach.
This oiler, by a series of quick miracles, and fast and steady oarsmanship, turned the boat in the middle of the surf and took her safely to sea again.
If we have to run a surf you'll need all your strength, because we'll sure have to swim for it.
Well," said the captain, "if no help is coming we might better try a run through the surfright away.
The voice of the surf heard now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother.
A strong wind was blowing, and the surf beat with such violence, on the shore, that it was impossible even for the surf boat to come out.
The surf was still very heavy, and it seemed well-nigh impossible that any boat could live through it.
All were greatly relieved when the wind abated, on the third day, and the surf boats were seen making their way out.
In his mind's eye he saw the white beaches, and towering cliffs, and black bosky gorges of the Dark Islands, and the thunder of the surf was in his ear.
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