"The moors over near Cloomber are just white wi' gulls and kittiewakes.

What d'ye think they come ashore for except to escape having all the feathers blown out o' them?
I mind a day like this when I was wi' Charlie Napier off Cronstadt.

It well-nigh blew us under the guns of the forts, for all our engines and propellers." "Have you ever known a wreck in these parts ?" I asked.
"Lord love ye, sir, it's a famous place for wrecks.

Why, in that very bay down there two o' King Philip's first-rates foundered wi' all hands in the days o' the Spanish war.

If that sheet o' water and the Bay o' Luce round the corner could tell their ain tale they'd have a gey lot to speak of.