The bridge is covered at high water; and if you try to cross below, especially when the tide is flowing, just you look out! Twice a day the sands become quick there.

They've swallowed scores.

I'll tell you another thing: there's a bird builds somewhere in the cliffs there--a crake, the people call it--and they say that whenever he goes crying about the sands, it means that a man will be drowned there." "Rubbish! I don't believe in your city." "Very well, then, I'll tell you something else.

The fishermen have seen it--five or six of them.

You know the kind of haze that gets up sometimes on hot days, when the sun's drawing water?
They say that if you're a mile or two out and this happens between you and Langona Creek, you can see the city quite plain above the shore, with the seven churches and all." "_I_ can see it!" Taffy blurted this out almost without knowing that he spoke; and blushed furiously when George laughed.