About a mile from the beach was the reef, on which the breakers beat clamorously or almost inaudibly, depending on the wind and the faraway surge of the seas.
Thus the two opposing elements of female nature have been in a conflict with each other; her instinct tries to surge over her intellect, but does not succeed; she demands the complete test of identity and gets it in the present Book.
But this grinding within is stopped by the grinding he gets without; a mighty surge overwhelms him, he clutches a rock and saves himself, but leaves flakes of flesh from his hands behind on the rock.
The older boy instantly saw the fast water, and with a hard surge of the paddle, could have steered the Den 2 canoe into it.
After the first surge of panic, he quieted his own fears.
Let any one try this, let any one lie for a few minutes just where the surge bursts, and he will understand what it means.
Their pursuits are purely "social," and neither ladies nor gentlemen ever go on the beach or lie where the surge comes to the feet.
Hopeless to appeal to is the unseen force that sends the white surge underneath to darken the pebbles to a certain line.
She was under the surge while it rushed up and while it rushed back; it carried her up to the steps of the machine and back again to her original position.
The hot blood sings in my ears and gushes With surge and spin Through my tingling veins.
They went on down town with the purpose of seeing life, as Jeff said, and got into a surge of shiny-eyed Mill Enders who looked to Jeff as if they were commiserating him although it was his candidate that won.
Now all these aches and agonies of the past were lulled by the surge of tired muscles.
On the thirsty uplands of Dryopia the empty earth is heaped up that does not cover Polymedes, tossed up and down far from stony Trachis on the surge of the Icarian sea.
A shorter time than it takes to tell it brought us close to and abreast of the surge of cattle.
The picture brought back a surge of his conquering spirit.
A surge of emotion rose in the girl and she snatched her sister to her, kissed her with a sudden passion, then ran.
An unexpected surge of depression suddenly rose upon him.
Oh, a wandering stream is the river Time, As it runs through the realms of tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a broader sweep and a surge sublime, And blends with the ocean of years.
The resounding impact of water on rocks, the clouds of water-smoke which rise high in the air, and the river below churned into a whirling cream of eddy and surge and backwater, unite in a composite effect, at once magnificent and bewildering.
Through hissing surgethe Santa Maria and her two consorts cut their way due west.
No doubt they made excursions in all directions to find out where the surge of the salt sea was nearest.
Dark-green water and white foamingsurge yawned behind them.
We had then to choose between two routes--either out to sea with heavy surge and boisterous wind; or along the coast, where the current would similarly hinder us.
You will soon have opportunities of seeing, hearing, and feeling how the surge beats just as on the coast of the ocean.
With a fresh surge of love and gratitude she thought about his patient waiting, more difficult for him than for many another.
At the thought of Joe's worried and suspicious eyes watching him, Ellis felt the familiar rage and resentment beginning to surge up in him, and he clamped down hard on it because conquering his temper was the one thing he was determined to do.
A surge of purest pleasure shimmered through him, for this was the second he had been awaiting.
A surgeof mingled joy and anguish struggled through his pulses, thrilled his nerves, mounted to his brain.
At that moment, for the first time, notwithstanding his better features and natty travelling costume, he felt himself so far Frank's inferior that a surge of fury resembling hate thrilled through him.
A sudden surgeof love for her mother almost swept away Ruth's self-command.
For a moment his cheek went down to her soft hair that was all around her, in a surge of love for its softness, a swift, deep gratitude for her loveliness.
Reefs buried in frothing surge showed their glistening mantles, and the boat swerved to avoid floating streamers of brash-ice.
Throbbing surge of the ebbing seaward gust, Raping stillness vast in its madd'ning lust.
And I will wait to practise kneeling to the Queen's taste," said Romney, with a look which brought a surge of red to Peggy's cheek.
To Elinor Calvert--but how describe the emotions that surge through her soul, each obliterating the former like waves on a beach of sand!
So, when his eyes without conscious motive stared at the poster advertising a railroad system that crosses the continent, Danny Lenox stopped and let the crowd surge past him.
I took it that she was beginning to wonder when the celebrities were going to surge round, and what had suddenly become of all those wild, careless spirits Rocky used to mix with in his letters.
It struck me that it was playing it a bit low-down on the poor chap, avoiding him like this just when he probably wanted his pals to surge round him most.
The barrier of ice which she had erected between her heart and Steve was swept away in a surge of passionate emotion.
Steve noted, with a surge of primitive triumph, that the only jewels she wore were a string of softly gleaming pearls and her wedding ring.
A curious mist seemed to float before his eyes, the hot blood of rage to surge into his brain, lights danced before him, and for the moment he felt hardly accountable for his actions.
She said it aloud, and then tore at her throat, for a thought came that made the blood surge up and nearly suffocate her.
He interpreted the surge of towns, the movement of the sea, the majestic solitude of the sky.
They have feeling which they cannot comprehend themselves, and the past and present surge through one another: life is a dream, and the dream is life.
Civilization he felt, would surge onward with amazing rapidity fostered by this detritus of the distant past.
And toward this now he crept, bit by bit, fighting his way along, now clinging as some more savage surge leaped over, now battling forward on hands and knees along the perilous strip of stone.
