Each tack was made shorter, as they saw how little it prevailed.

Every moment the rising swell began to boom and foam upon another sunken reef; and ever and again a breaker would fall in sounding ruin under the very bows of her, and the brown reef and streaming tangle appear in the hollow of the wave.

I tell you, they had to stand to their tackle: there was no idle men aboard that ship, God knows.

It was upon the progress of a scene so horrible to any human-hearted man that my misguided uncle now pored and gloated like a connoisseur.

As I turned to go down the hill, he was lying on his belly on the summit, with his hands stretched forth and clutching in the heather.