I believe the turbulent
waves Swallow the last shipper and boat; She with her singing craves All to visit her magic moat.
The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the
waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache.
Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at another as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the
waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and
wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
In a few minutes a rushing sound was heard in the waters, and a
wave swept the spinning-wheel from the bank.
He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose
waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm.
I am afraid some great
wave will lift me off my legs and dash me against the rocks as I leave the water--which would give me a sorry landing.
DOWN among the grass and fragrant clover lay little Eva by the brook-side, watching the bright
waves, as they went singing by under the drooping flowers that grew on its banks.
At this instant, in the midst of the silver circle illumined by the light of the moon the same whirlpool which had been made by the sinking men was again obvious, and first were seen, rising above the
waves, a wisp of hair, then a pale face with open eyes, yet, nevertheless, the eyes of death; then a body, which, after rising of itself even to the waist above the sea, turned gently on its back, according to the caprice of the
waves, and floated.
The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the
waves, and said:
As the noise of the troubled ocean when roll the
waves on high, as the last peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war.
Beyond the fir wood was an open curve in the road and she had promised to
wave a last farewell as they passed around it.
she thought, more amused than frightened at her sudden change of condition; and then, as the coop climbed up to the top of a big
wave, she looked eagerly around for the ship from which she had been blown.
