The strong wind and swashing seas being in my favor, the canoe soon arrived opposite the spot of upland I had so longed to reach the previous night.
As its booming thunders or its angry, swashing sound increased, I knew I was rapidly nearing it, but, blinded by the boiling waters, I could see nothing.
She was noticeably down by the head, and black water was swashing forward of the break of the main-deck.
Stubb at this instant, as a swashing sea heaved up under his own little craft so that its gunwale violently jammed his hand, as he was passing a lashing.
Captains of horse and foot go swashing with 'enormous white cockades;' nay one Versailles National Captain had mounted the like, so witching were the words and glances; and laid aside his tricolor!
Your dusty Mill of Valmy, as all other mills and drudgeries, may furl its canvass, and cease swashing and circling.
And so Swashing Will of Wallingford hath bid us good-night?
Stubb at this instant, as a swashing sea heaved up under his own little craft, so that its gunwale violently jammed his hand, as he was passing a lashing.
One night we heard water swashing under the forecastle deck.
By swashing them up and down for awhile, I got considerable of the mud removed.
The next night we heard the same swashing again; then we knew there was a leak somewhere.
But the boat wasswashing in and out against the side of the ship--up on a sea and then bang!
Plunging her bow under, and through she'd go; and when she did the seas would go swashing up atop of her make-believe deck and come rolling down her round-top plates and squishing through the hundreds of round holes in her deck sides.
He smiled when he found himself groping in the swashingwater for it, for he could not take it with him where he expected that he would have to go.
The Nancy Hazlewood showed that she was a very wet ship, for her decks were covered with water, that ran swashing from side to side.
At last the doctor fairly fell over the rail, landed astride on the boat's gunwale, and from thence took a roll to the bottom and lay in the swashing water.
When we had the first hundred barrels of mackerel swashing in brine, the rest of them, perhaps another hundred barrels, were bailed in.
The Johnnie was close-hauled at this time and swashing under, and I knew without asking further that the skipper intended to make Delaware Breakwater.
All day it was splashing andswashing through mud and mire, the rain-drops shining on the gun-barrels and dripping from the heavy-footed horses.
The doomed Dobson was swashingtoward the roaring shore broadside on.
Her jibs, swashing soggily about her bow, were hoisted out of the water, and a gust bellied them.
A flurried Court, that of Gotha, and much swashing of French plumes through it, all this morning, since Seidlitz had to flit.
Mycenae, we have a sword blade so massive at the top that it was certainly capable of a swashing blow.
It does not follow from these three cases (as critics argue) that no bronze sword could be used for a swashing blow, and there are just half as many thrusts as strokes with the bronze sword in the Iliad.
Nay, I shall flash it flaming in their sight, And brandish it, and promise swashing blows Of the keen blade, as ofttimes heretofore.
Nay, even the stroke of your Excalibur Hath scarcely its old swashing force.
I take it, it will not be a very clean reckoning without a good swashing penance.
Parrying the swashing blow with ease, he replied with a thrust that tumbled the captain groaning from his saddle.
Faith, I don't know, but he have a fine long purse, and 'tis a fine swashing gentleman.
Was nought but mirth and joyance in Burgundy to hear, And swashing of the buckler, and clattering of the spear.
XXXII When good Sir Dietrich noted how with each swashing stroke The furious Lord of Trony a Hunnish morion broke, On to a bench straight leapt he, to see the knights of Rhine.
The swashing sound of the waves on the sides of the Foundling was now provided with some manner of ominous significance.
There was cold sea-water swashing to and fro in the boat, and he lay in it.
A belated steamboat was swashing down stream, and a schooner, having but little of wind and less of tide to help it along, was rocking listlessly in the long swell.
She sounded almost atop of us, and the whistling was followed by a swashing of water as though her propeller had been reversed.
