But its outlines seemed too uneven and its grey colour was that of the rocks, naked rocks, without any covering of wrack or other sea-weed.
Around them, a bed of dried wrack and other sea-weeds, beneath which the cable disappeared for a length of several miles, formed a series of hills and valleys.
Will ye go out jest to give them another chance to wrack themselves, and ye put yerself by to drown?
He sniffed the east wind, its wild smell of sea-wrack and approaching rain.
Now that, Ben thought, that is certainly an effect of the new cloud-wrack passing over the moon.
The bladder-wrack moved with strange noises, sometimes startlingly loud, oftenest as if sea-things were being stifled or strangled.
Having fastened the torch to the rope, he swung it far down the narrow funnel, up which came the smell of wrack and sea-damp and an obscure, muffled sound.
Blent with the gurgle and cluck and whisper of the water among the lifted bladder-wrack and in and out of the pools and crannies in the rocks, there was the piteous sound of a human sob.
He worked best at night when the storm tore and tugged at the stones and birchbark of the turf roof, and the sea-wrack came right up to the boathouse door.
He thought he was looking about him, deep down in the sea, and he saw the fishes flitting and snapping about among the sea-wrack and seaweeds round about the fishing line.
Portent of head winds and foul weather that we may meet in Channel before the last of Glasgow's grime and smoke-wrack is blown from the rigging.
The heavy, racing clouds had broken in the zenith; there were rifts here and there through which shone fleeting gleams from the moon, lighting the furious ocean for a moment, then vanishing as the storm-wrack swept over.
Overhead the sky was black with the wrack of hurrying clouds, and the sullen grey water around us was already white-topped by the bite of freshening wind.
I mane if ye say any timbers or spars from the wrack drifting inshore, just you hould your eye on thim, or the divil a mother's son ye'll have a roof over his hid or a pace of foire to warm his-self!
Me own father was drunk wid rum out o' a wrack when he fell over the edge o' the cliff, an' broke his neck on the land-wash.
Sure, didn't I hold her in me two arms all the way from the fore-top o' the wrack to the cliff?
But for me there'd not bin one bottle o' wine come to us from the wrack an' the poor folks aboard her would never have got ashore in their boats for want of a light on the land-wash.
It was for a case o' brandy out o' a wrack Pat Walen an' Micky Nolan fit wid skulpin'-knives till Pat was killed dead.
I bain't sayin' that, father dear, though it were as peaceful an' dacent a wrack as ever yer reverence heard tell of.
Igraine watched this thunder-cloud of thought and passion in silence, thinking she would meet the man in the wrack of life rather as friend than as foe.
He had never believed that love in so brief a space could make such wrackof madness in a hale and healthy body.
In time agone some mighty thing this place to wrack down drave, So much for changing of the world doth lapse of time avail.
What mishaps and what wrack of peace have been my due reward Thou seest, Turnus, and what grief I was the first to bear.
But all we weeping many tears, my wife Creusa there, Ascanius, yea and all the house, besought him not to bear All things to wrack with him, nor speed the hastening evil tide.
Not such as with the wrack of flood shall mingle earth and sea, Nor such as into nether Hell shall melt the heavenly land.
The overthrow of tower and town, and wrack of Italy.
Half-dead the warders fall to earth by world of wrack o'erborne, Pierced with their own shafts, and their breasts with hardened splinters torn.
As Philip reached Port Mooar, a cart was coming out of it with a load of sea-wrack for the land, and a lobster-fisher on the beach was shipping his gear for sea.
The sea-wrack was banked up in the darkness behind, and between two stones at the mouth there were the remains of a recent fire.
As the sun set, the veil of cloud-wrack which had obscured the heavens all day was rent asunder in the western quarter, and we caught a glimpse of the great luminary hanging upon the verge of the horizon like a ball of molten copper.
Hence grew the generall wrack and massacre: Enclosed were they with their Enemies.
You looke on me: what wrack discerne you in me Deserues your pitty?
Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea, Buried some deere friend, hath not else his eye Stray'd his affection in vnlawfull loue, A sinne preuailing much in youthfull men, Who giue their eies the liberty of gazing.
Instead of coming on in one solid bank of blackness, the clouds were broken into a wrack of wild and fantastic fragments, the interspaces of which showed alternately paly green and pearly grey.
Looking back from the summit of the mound, Boris saw something dark lying high up on the beach amid a wrack of seaweed and broken timber which marked where the great wave had stopped.
Everything hung confused in my brain like a wrack of cloud, which, parting, discloses now one thing and now another but nothing clearly, nor whole.
I'll cross him, and wrack him, until I heart-break him, And then his auld brass will buy me a new pan.
The cloud-wrack and thunder had passed from the sky.
Fulviac, watching her, saw the strong wrack of wrath twisting her delicate features for the moment into pathetic ugliness.
The cloud-wrack had vanished, and the sky was thickly sown with great stars that seemed to look down upon them with friendly gaze.
Day was breaking, sullen and gray, in a wrack of flying clouds, and the uneasy moaning of the sea sounded in his ears.
Wrack or sea-weed, used as manure on some of the coasts of England.
A name for the sea-wrack (Zostera marina); it is thrown ashore by the sea in large quantities.
