| 单词 | comber |
| 例句 | Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a rare house or building that is not rigged with spiky combers of the air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Raimondi’s team created a Web site for interested divers and tide-pool combers to contribute photographs and observations of sea stars in the wild. What Does It Look Like when an Ecosystem Collapses? Kelp Can Show Us 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The giant squid’s fame, its tentacles touching Norse mythology, monster sightings by sailors and beach combers and the science fiction of Jules Verne, flows in large part from the animal’s mystery. Giant squid writ small: juvenile monsters of the deep captured off Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The sea ahead was white and Red Rose rolled hard when the rising combers picked her up. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Indeed, any southerly gale is dangerous, for the whirling squalls slew a small boat around until broadside to the combers, and then the end comes before the unfortunate gold hunter has time to think twice. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Very slowly, fighting for every fathom, they drove her outshore, until the combers grew less steep and their crests ceased to break, and Desmond gazing seawards could see the Palestrina when she lifted. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z If that Siwash lost his nerve for a moment the next comber would swallow the canoe. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The launch was wet with spray, which flew up in clouds as she lurched over the white-topped combers that burst in a chaotic spouting on a black volcanic reef not far away from her. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z A white comber rose to windward, there was a thud, and jib and short bowsprit vanished. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Now and then the crest of some comber broke over the snub bow of the craft, sending back the spray in a shower that rattled on the front windows of the cabin. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z She also took a prominent part in it very gracefully, while a quiet brown-faced man leaned on a little wildly-rolling steamer's rail, looking southwest across the dazzling white-flecked combers towards the shadowy land. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Then there was a thud as she charged a big comber, and the frothy cataract that seethed in over her weather rail swirled aft a foot deep, while the spray blew all over her. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Thus he felt himself in entire sympathy with Jefferson as every big comber hove the launch up and the spray lashed his tingling skin, while for five anxious minutes the issue hung in the balance. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z The sea was all white, for the current, setting strongly round the head, ran in angry combers against the wind. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The light was growing, and he could now discern the orderly phalanxes of white-topped combers that crumpled into chaotic spouting on the point’s outer end. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Somebody produced them, and gasping and floundering they ran her up with another comber thundering out of the darkness behind them, and then flung themselves down breathless and dripping on the hot sand. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Its attack was honest and open, and the man with nerve enough might meet and withstand the charge of its seething combers. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Earl seemed rather of the same mind, too, for he kept edging out to the right every time one of the big combers lurched over at him. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z White combers rolled up to windward and as she plunged across their tops she threw up clouds of spray. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The comber to windward that should have lifted her up broke all over her; flinging the boat on deck upon the saloon skylight, and pouring inches deep over the coaming into the well. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z There was a sail just outshore of it, a little strip of gray canvas that appeared and vanished amidst the serried ranks of tumbling combers. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Jimmy said nothing, though naturally he was aware that when the ocean streams run against the breeze they are very apt to pile up whatever sea there is into curling, hollow-crested combers. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z “The top of that comber was ten feet above your head,” he said, “and it came curving over you just like the ‘canopy’ of a ‘Jack-in-the-Pulpit.’ Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z She rolled on the angry combers and the boom that stretched the lugsail's foot tossed up. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z They drove her remorselessly; and she went through the combers, swept and streaming, while the spray scourged the helmsman’s face as he gazed to weather. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Lister glanced at the fringe of crumbling combers with slow appreciation. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Hoisting a mere rag of sail, the daring rescuers headed for the open, the boat speeding under the pressure of the howling wind, while Tom Cherry steered her adroitly to meet each threatening comber. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z Turning at the finish of my stroke, I saw that big spray-flipping comber about two lengths away, and dead ahead, looking savager than ever. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Somewhere in the mist the big combers crashed upon a hammered beach. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The wind was suddenly cut off; the combers fell away, and the sloop crept slowly up the inlet, which wound, green and placid, among the hills. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z As it ran to windward it broke up the regular, breeze-driven waves into short, foaming combers with hollowed breasts and tumbling tops which flung up wisps of spray. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z For half-an-hour more the seas, though high, were comparatively regular, but at the expiration of that time the dinghy, which was being towed astern, was filled by a vicious comber. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Imshallah pounded horribly, but gave not the savagest of the twisting combers a chance to put anything solid over her high held head. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z In the morning the breeze was fresh and Columbine threw the spray about as she plunged across the white combers. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Carroll frowned when a comber struck the weather bow and a shower of stinging spray whipped his face. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z The dim, slate-green water lapped noisily upon the wall of rock close by, and glancing seaward he saw nothing but a leaden haze and a short stretch of tumbling combers. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z We were caught in the tail end of a comber. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The next moment she was wallowing, beam-on, into the troughs and over the crests of the combers, dipping green water at every roll. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z It was necessary to be accurate, because, except when the combers picked up the boat, he could see nothing but the white tops of the waves. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z He thought he could find his way out of the inlet, but he only knew that he had done so when the angry ripples that splashed about the boat suddenly changed to confused tumbling combers. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z The sea was on her quarter, and each comber that came up boiled about her in a great surge of foam, and heaved her up before it left her to sink dizzily into the hollow. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The fellow pushed him back and, losing his balance as the boat plunged over a comber, he fell heavily upon the floorings. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z There was water enough to have swamped a batteau, but against a raft the comber had knocked its head off for nothing. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Sometimes he swung high above the combers that rushed past below; and sometimes swung down until his body was wet by the foam. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z A ripple washed over his feet, then a curling comber splashed up to his knees; but he took another step, unconscious of the water now about his hips. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z A filmy spray cloud hung about the entrance, and beyond it big, gray combers tipped with froth came rolling up in long succession. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z For a few seconds Grahame held his breath, waiting for the shock; but she went on, and lifted her head buoyantly as the next comber rolled up. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Presently Ike came pulling round the bend at a great rate, and the next thing I knew Imshallah was floundering right down the middle of the frosty-headed combers. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z She took it like a duck, except where two or three of the most broken combers let her down too sharply for her bows to rise to meet the next in turn. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Toward ten o'clock, however, the monsoon veered, and wing-and-wing the old boat, creaking in every joint as if she had the dengue, grunted her way over flashing combers with a speed that seemed almost indecent. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Then as he watched the ceaseless shoreward rush of the big combers and looked up at black rock and climbing pines, a strange delight in the new life he led crept into his heart. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z One associates them with elemental strife—the white tide-surge across desolate sands and the pounding of the combers on weedy reefs—and not with domestic peace. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The very worst of them—haughty-headed combers that would have sent the skiff sky-rocketing—simply dissolved against the logs and died in hissing anguish in the tangle of cordwood. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z But not a yard could I move her from the crest of that white-capped ridge of rollicking combers. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Ah! a long and grinding concussion as she tore up the ground, then along came another mighty comber over all. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The rancherie was hot and the dull roar of the combers on the reef came throbbing in and made him restless. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z It was not running high: the heavy rain had beaten down the swell; but it would soon rise, and unless the vessel could be brought head to wind the combers would sweep her deck. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The rocks were not hard to avoid, but banging almost side-on into the great back-curving combers thrown off by the cliffs was just a bit terrifying. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Pulling hard to the right, I gave good berth to a line of badly messed up combers with not enough foam on them to cover all of the black-rock ledge beneath. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z “Sure we’ll make it!” asserted Frank, as he shifted the wheel slightly to meet another comber, though not so large as the former one. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z Then he glanced astern at the combers that followed them, and was by no means comforted by the sight. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The swell had gathered itself up into tumbling combers that shook their crests about the rail as the Enchantress lurched over them. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z I couldn’t see, of course, but I judged it must have been that way from the manner in which she slapped down and buried her nose under the next comber. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z She will be plunging forecastle under into the Atlantic combers now. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Row after row of spume-capped combers met his eye and his face became grim with determination. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z He had scarcely finished speaking when a comber curled over at its top rose up close ahead, and the boat went into it to the mast. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Then she listed down with her rail in the white surges that boiled up to lee, while tall, hollow-fronted combers ranged up astern and sped after her. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z She lay there a few moments while her crew watched the comber that rose ahead. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Her turbine drove her through the combers at a forty-five knot clip, which named her a speedy craft for a freighter in them days. Friend Island 2011-02-28T03:00:33.693Z Even this small burst of speed caused the amphibian to bury its nose in the combers; and all but foundered her under a torrent of sea water. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z Their whitened tops broke over her, her canvas ran water, and every other minute she plunged into a comber with buried bows. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z His fierce impatience seemed to have inspired thudding engines and quivering hull, and he thrilled when a great, white-topped comber rolled up and swept her on. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z For three days a bitter gale raged about the island, blowing clouds of sand and fine shingle along the beach and piling the big Pacific combers upon the shoals. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The long line of milk-white combers, after expending their force upon the shore, rushed swiftly back, drawn by a mysterious undertow towards the deep waters. The Story of Malta The hulk of the General Grant is still within the cave, but the undertow and the great combers have thus far baffled the divers. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The sloop, which had sheered off a little farther, was sailing abreast of her with lowered peak about a hundred yards away, rising and falling with the long combers which, however, broke less angrily. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Now she was matching her strength and skill against the blue Atlantic combers, which were getting steeper and frothing on their crests. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The long swell had rapidly changed into tumbling combers that rolled down upon the laboring sloop out of the dark. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z "What do you beach combers want?" asked the commodore severely. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure Gale followed gale with tropical downpours of rain, the wind blowing from every quarter at once, piling up mountainous combers that every now and again broke over the bridge, forty feet above the water. By Right of Conquest A Novel Then as a comber fell upon her they sprang back to the jibsheet and hauled upon it, while the spray flew all over them. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The dinghy was close at hand, lurching up and down, lost from sight at intervals among the combers. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z After a time, during which the horizon steadily receded, a gray and misty blur appeared on the starboard hand, and, now that they could see the combers, they got the Cetacea round. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z And the next morning Jem was missing, his sister coming to fill his place, and, with her ready Irish wit, parrying all the boys' jokes on "the first girl comber of Monmouth." Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 One giant comber after another broke over the rail with a thunderous roar, sending up clouds of spray that completely hid the bridge from sight. By Right of Conquest A Novel The combers, growing rapidly higher, broke more angrily, and her progress changed into a series of jerks and plunges, which at times threatened to shake the spars out of her. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Besides, it was pleasant to sit under the awning with the fresh sea breeze on her face and listen to the splash of the combers on the bows. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z For two days she made a satisfactory run, and then, as the breeze freshened and the sea got up, her speed slackened and, burdened by her heavy masts, she plunged viciously through the white-topped combers. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z To my unspeakable and heartfelt relief we were now on the upheave of the curling combers, and those horrible fins were still behind. A Veldt Vendetta The long arm of the periscope with its "eye" on top had been raised, and it reached far above the biggest combers. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam The combers still came surging after them crested with glittering froth, though they no longer broke about the rail, and there was a constant gurgling and splashing of water inside the lurching vessel. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Behind them a heavy comber was surging in, crested with snow, its concave belly resembling a vast sheet of emerald. The Destroying Angel It sluiced off, however, and the sharp swoop into the trough was repeated as comber after comber swept upon them. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z And the undertow at the very last proved the most difficult of all to withstand, and twice we were dragged irresistibly backward, to be pounded by the breaking thunder of the next onrushing comber. A Veldt Vendetta By the time they were ready to start, the wind had freshened into half a gale and a high sea was running, heaping up big gray combers with white tops which broke angrily. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam When the sliver lap machine furnishes laps for the comber, the slivers are previously put through one head of drawing, namely, between four lines of drawing rollers, to straighten out the fibres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The comber overtook them, clasped them to its bosom, tossed them high upon its great glassy shoulder. The Destroying Angel The combers were getting bigger with the rising tide and the sloop plunged into them viciously, flooding her forward deck, and jarring her cable. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z He breathed a hasty gasp of air before the next comber hit him. The Sensitive Man Trewavas had just shuffled his feet a few inches further on that slippery slope when a comber heaved its great length along the rock. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers It almost seemed as though there was some mistake, as though my brother had vanished into the night and some other beach comber, with a big nose and dark eyes, had applied for the job. Aliens To either side were tumbling the broken waves, curling away like beach combers. The Seiners Individual combers emerged from it, and the sloop alternately reeled over them with a white surge boiling at her bows and plunged into the hollows. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The armed trawler Curlew bravely shouldered her way through each green comber as it rose to meet her, lurching over the seas in a smother of spray. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships After that, he looked resolutely astern over his companion’s shoulders as she swung up between him and the sea with the slate-green ridges and tumbling white tops of the combers behind her. The Greater Power There are usually six small laps being operated upon simultaneously in one comber. The Story of the Cotton Plant Look at it––the color of the tip of a comber in twelve fathom of water and a cross-tide. The Seiners The enormous comber broke, like a mine exploding, with cataracts of foam, and water thrown on high in columns. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore To those in northern seas came the blinding sleet, the slate-grey combers and the innumerable hardships and dangers of winter patrol. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships He did not think it could be done, and set his lips as he let her go, careering on a comber’s crest, with at least half her length out of the water. The Greater Power When the combing is adopted, it precedes the drawing frame, which has previously been described, and the cans of sliver from the comber are taken directly to the draw-frame. The Story of the Cotton Plant With all my boyish pranks, I was generally a favourite among the combers. Adventures and Recollections The boat came on, now swallowed in the deep trough, now rearing on the crests of the combers. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The engines were put to full speed ahead, and as each comber struck the bows the little ship trembled from stem to stern, and clouds of icy spray swept high over the mast. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships The first cotton comber was invented by a Frenchman of Alsace named Heilmann. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Heilman was the inventor of several useful improvements in connection with spinning and weaving machinery, but the invention of the comber was undoubtedly his greatest achievement. The Story of the Cotton Plant To add to the danger, the spume and spin-drift from the combers were thickened by a mist that seemed to descend from above, blotting out the distant light-ship. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The combers had stopped coming in huge but fairly regular mountains from astern. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The July weather had been magnificent—blue skies, a gentle wind, and a sea scarcely silvered by a comber. The Dark Star This involves breaking the lap again and the intricacy of the comber rests in the mechanism which it employs for joining the separated ends. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States It must be understood that the comber is only used by a comparatively small proportion of the cotton spinners of the world. The Story of the Cotton Plant To the home of the floods and thunder, To her pale dry healing blue— To the lift of the great Cape combers, And the smell of the baked Karroo. The Seven Seas Pascualo, upright, his feet glued to the deck, had his eyes on the waves ahead, studying every comber carefully as it swept toward the vessel. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Except when the Channel was too discourteous, he slept as a sea bird sleeps afloat, tossing outside thundering combers which batter basalt rocks. The Dark Star For fine counts the slivers from the comber, and for other grades that which comes directly from the card, are taken, then to the drawing frame. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States It is seldom used for counts of yarn below 60's and often as fine yarns as 100's or more are made without the comber. The Story of the Cotton Plant Just then a comber that broke on board most hove us over, and when we had dodged the next two there wasn't a sign of her. Hawtrey's Deputy On hands and knees, and at the risk of going overboard with the next wave, he crawled along from the rail to a hatch that had been torn off by a recent comber. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore I had been some months on shore when I began to get tired of looking at green fields and grass combers, and longed to be once more on the salt seas. A Sailor of King George Over the breakwaters the giant combers crashed and soared far up into the troubled sky; while out under the black clouds of the night the whirlpools and the tempests met. Great Pirate Stories It ought to be added that other types of comber have been adopted on the continent with some show of success. The Story of the Cotton Plant Nothing but the combers and the flying haze. Hawtrey's Deputy But that bit of canvas caught the hurricane with tremendous force, bending the mast threateningly and giving considerable headway to the Mayflower, which was taking every comber over forward. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore When th’ foe starts to invade, my boys, An’ creep along th’ shore, Where th’ curling breakers wash th’ cliffs, Where th’ breeching combers roar. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Far to the north they fell and burst into white spray, as though a long Atlantic comber were pounding on a rocky shore. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The Carding Engine, however, makes slivers or strands of cotton, while the comber requires the cotton to be presented to it in the form of thin sheets. The Story of the Cotton Plant There is very little comfort on board a small, deeply-loaded steamer when she rolls her rails in, and lurches with thudding screw swung clear over big, steep-sided combers. Hawtrey's Deputy Finally, from the top of a comber, the beach came into view, the black profiles of the houses standing out against the sky. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Who’d coasted and traded from London to Ryde, Huggins and Muggins, all seamen of worth, Who could jibe and could sail, sir, when combers were wide? Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure He handled that boat skillfully, meeting the big seas and riding their summits, only to be buried the next instant in the watery valley between the giant combers. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code On she came, leaping and dropping broadside among the combers. A Village of Vagabonds Then, with two little wet rags of canvas set she lay almost head on to the big combers, and met their onslaught with a hove-up weather bow. Hawtrey's Deputy The fleet was returning like a frightened herd in stampede, each boat plunging in the combers with the bellow of the tempest upon its heels. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore I can close my eyes and actually smell the sea-weed and the damp sand and hear the inrush of the big combers. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Whilst I was trying to keep the boat before the wind, for net-shooting, a great comber plopped over the stern right upon my back. A Poor Man's House A fresh southwest breeze was blowing under a cloudy sky and the vessel, rolling viciously, lurched across the white-topped combers of the warm Gulf Stream. Brandon of the Engineers His companions saw the big combers tumbling ready to break short upon the dipping bows out of the dark, and half-frozen men struggling for dear life with folds of madly thrashing sail. Hawtrey's Deputy His listeners saw the big combers tumbling ready to break short upon the dipping bows, and half-frozen men struggling for dear life with folds of madly thrashing sail. Masters of the Wheat-Lands As the current bore them inexorably closer, and they picked out the rocks and the great white combers awaiting them, there was always a moment when they longed to turn aside from their fate. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] She dodged the combers like a hare before greyhounds, now steering east, now west, on the whole towards home. A Poor Man's House A spray-cloud veiled her forward when the bows plunged into a comber’s hollow side, and then as they swung up until her forefoot was clear, foam and green water poured aft in cataracts. Brandon of the Engineers She came to in most perfect style as she climbed the breast of each oncoming comber, heeling steeply to it the while and turning up a bold weather bow to meet its onslaught. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise In all probability, they had an oar short, and the boat rolled them out when a comber broke upon her in the darkness.” Masters of the Wheat-Lands The combers, breaking diagonally along that forsaken beach, had something ominous to say of the bar. Old Junk Already the sea was rising in crested combers which broke with the noise of thunder and the fury of the wind was insensate. Blackbeard: Buccaneer A long swell, however, worked in, and farther out the white tops of the combers glistened in the moonlight. Brandon of the Engineers They plunged into wave after wave, carrying Bert almost completely under, as a bather goes under a comber in the surf. A Voyage with Captain Dynamite Just then a comber that broke on board ’most hove us over, and when we had dodged the next two there wasn’t a sign of the schooner. Masters of the Wheat-Lands At the base of the dark declivities the combers were bursting, and the spume towered on the gale like grey smoke. Old Junk The commotion of the wind shrieking in the rigging and the horrid crash of the toppling combers were enough to convince a landlubber that the vessel was doomed to founder. Blackbeard: Buccaneer If they had missed the gap, the first warning would be a shock, and then the combers that rolled up behind them would destroy the stranded craft. Brandon of the Engineers In such way as I could not explain, none the less at length the little boat won through, no more than half filled by the breaking comber. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Somehow 321 our little boat lived through it, but there wasn’t a sign of the island when morning came—nothing but the combers and the flying haze! Masters of the Wheat-Lands She went astern of us fast, and a great comber ran at her, as if it had but just spied her, and thought she was escaping. Old Junk A rushing comber swept the boat and nearly swamped it. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia There was a change in the motion, for the launch did not roll so much and the combers no longer broke in showers of spray against her side. Brandon of the Engineers Then something dark rose against the sky away out beyond the peak end of the gaff—something black looming up on the crest of a mighty comber. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers With two little wet rags of canvas set the schooner lay almost head on to the big combers. Masters of the Wheat-Lands And Christopher Columbus was the son of a wool comber, and himself worked before the mast. The Rich Little Poor Boy For ordinary purposes a sufficiently good quality can be made without a comber. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The launch rolled and lurched as the foam-tipped combers hove her up and the awning flapped savagely in the whistling breeze. Brandon of the Engineers Even the sail itself was under water, and the sea breaking in big rushes over it with every comber that came along. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers “Oh, there comes a big one!” and, as he spoke, an immense comber buried from sight the two whom the life-savers were endeavoring to pull from the grip of the sea. The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast I looked back and saw the angry combers roaring after us, as though enraged at our escape. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer On leaving the comber, the wool is free from short fibers, specks, and foreign substances, and presents a fine, flowing, and lustrous appearance. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Since he must find the opening in the reef, much depended on his steering an accurate course, but this was difficult, because he had to bear away before the largest combers. Brandon of the Engineers Then he, or she—for young girls are most expert swimmers—makes for open water, where the combers are forming. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The wind had moderated, but on all sides was a wild gray waste of heaving, white-crested combers, before which the brig was still scudding under the staysail. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea He was born in the city of Genoa about the year 1435, where his father, Dominico Colombo, carried on the business of a wool comber, which his ancestors had followed for several generations. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The process of combing consists of subjecting the card sliver to the operations of the automatic wool comber, which straightens the fibers and removes all short and tufted pieces of wool. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades "Horses," she said showing sharp teeth, "are nothing for a man with your bile—poy-boy—curry comber, smelling of saddle soap—lovely!" The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story They whipped up white combers that sprang on her flanks and tried to crush her, and the wind played a devil's lament in her rigging. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Dave stood with the men for a few minutes, observing the combers that rolled against the stern, the tops breaking over the side. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers I belong to a long and a titled line, And the least of your wishes I won’t decline; Next month I will usher My wife into Russia:— Sweet comber and brusher, Consider you’re mine!” Grimm Tales Made Gay From the top of the next comber I answered: "It did until you joined me here, but now I know you belong to me forever, both in the land of dreams and waking." The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure By 1850 men, women, and children—combers, spinners, and weavers—were no longer individual workers; they had become part of that great monster, the mill-machinery. Home Life in Colonial Days The wool comes to Cork, etc., and is delivered out to combers, who make it into balls. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 At that very instant a huge comber climbed aboard over the stern, the great bulk of water lifting Dave as though he were but a chip. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers Then he awaited the coming of the next comber with set teeth, and held his breath. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast At last his father, who was a wool comber, said to him, "My son, if you really wish to become a sailor, I will send you to a school where you will be taught navigation." Discoverers and Explorers She bobs up serene and smiling after ever comber. Peggy Stewart at School Out of the mist into the mirk The glimmering combers roll. The Years Between There was a businesslike directness in the way he kept onward and outward until a comber lifted him and his swimming had begun. The Tyranny of Weakness She closed her eyes and saw again the rough, unkempt white men, beach combers, who lived by trading, hunting and whaling with the natives. The Blue Envelope The amount of goods traffic from Royston by these wagons was very considerable, especially by the Wakefield wagons which conveyed the wool from the combers in Royston to the Yorkshire Mills. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King But, it was a perilous run of it, and every big comber that raced after us looked as if it would overtake our tiny craft and swamp her! The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace As we struck into them they swept over us like combers on the beach in a great storm. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 For one instant it could be seen as a white rim above the wire, then some comber of a big shell struck it fair and spouted it black aloft. The Old Front Line Toward ten o'clock, however, the monsoon veered, and, wing-and-wing, the old boat, creaking in every joint as if she had the dengue, grunted her way over flashing combers with a speed that seemed almost indecent. The Spinner's Book of Fiction As they waded into it up to their waists, Mollie and Betty came swimming back, shaking the water from their eyes and cleaving the big combers with long, powerful strokes. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue A shore like the walls of a giant rampart with reefs in the teeth of a saw, lashed to a fury by beach combers, offered poor escape from death by scurvy. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The wind had died down and only the muffled beating of the great combers on far seaward bars was audible, but—of a sudden she was bolt upright in bed, listening with every sense alert. Where the Sun Swings North Great combers were pouring over our bow and the floods came sweeping down the decks sounding like the roar of a thousand cataracts. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Wildly they rolled and pitched, burying their bows in the roaring combers. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 We don't know yet—we're not even all wet," returned Mollie, adding, as a great comber came rushing toward them: "Come on, Gracie, here's a good one. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue The beach comber had either swept her through a gap in the reef, or hurled her clear above the reefs into shelter. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The tide had been coming in for some time, assaulting the shore with ever nearing combers. Where the Sun Swings North It was being tossed dizzily amongst the inky combers twenty yards distant, the men rowing feverishly to get clear of the yacht before she sank and sucked them under. Swirling Waters And Signet, guttersnipe, beach comber, and midnight assassin, was lodged in the "calaboose," built stoutly in a corner of the biggest and reddest of the Dutchman's godowns. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story As it was, the starboard deck stood high in the air while the port side almost touched the water and was constantly swept by mountainous combers. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue There is something inexpressibly terrifying even from a point of safety in these beach combers, clutching their long arms hungrily for prey. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Her straining eyes smarted from the high-flung spray of increasing combers. Where the Sun Swings North "Our boat—over there!" he cried to Olive, and clutching her by the arm, fought the combers towards the hope of refuge. Swirling Waters He stared at Signet, as if the beach comber were just discovered. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story But the gallant little boat came on and out fighting its bitter fight with the elements, till, rising on one last long comber, it swept magnificently in and grounded on the shore. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue The next beach comber could not budge her. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward When the next incoming comber was beginning to curl down from the top, Jean dashed to the bluff. Where the Sun Swings North Great combers occasionally swept the decks from bow to stern. Ralph Granger's Fortunes Nevertheless, I shortened sail and brought her to the wind, watching the lulls and easing her over the combers, as well as I could. Voyage of the Liberdade The only approach to grandeur are the long surges and white combers of the mournful and misty Atlantic. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative A third time the beach combers crashed down like a falling mountain. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The pale-green combers that were breaking for miles out on the shoals, made it impossible to think of using the whale-boat. Where the Sun Swings North The Maggie was resting easily on the beach, with the broken water from the long lazy combers surging well up above her water line. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole fore-gone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Great Sea Stories The weft threads are forced up against the fabric by means of the comber board and are beaten in with a baton. The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Knee to shoulder, King and stallion reared and sprang Clear above the long white combers And that turmoil's iron clang. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea The tide was higher now, the combers nearer, and he had but one free hand with which to cling to the base of the bluff when the enveloping waters rose about him. Where the Sun Swings North The huge combers coursing up its strand broke twenty feet high and offered nothing but utter destruction to any small craft that attempted a landing. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats The sea lay sparkling in the sunlight, while almost at their feet great white-crested combers were rolling in and breaking against the sandy bluff. The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar Hunters, forest rangers, restless bordermen, and squatters, like the foaming combers of an advancing tide, went first. History of the United States It seemed an age while the tug climbed to the top of the next comber. Dan Merrithew Would he find the boy where he had left him, or had a comber swept him off the narrow shelf? Where the Sun Swings North Slim was completely exhausted; but before another comber rolled in those who were strong managed to drag the weaker ones out of the reach of the undertow. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats She was butting her snub nose furiously into swelling combers. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul And it was not particularly dark, only a dusky gloom spotted with white patches where a comber reared up and broke in foam. Burned Bridges A comber rose green behind, hiding the Fledgling. Dan Merrithew From under the grey curtain of the driving rain combers of muddy green raced in, spouting high in wind-torn fury against the rocks and rolling swiftly toward her to fling themselves roaring at her. Where the Sun Swings North At the mouth of the Cove white sheets of spray lifted as each comber reared and broke in that narrow place. Poor Man's Rock She, of course, at once fell off into the trough of the sea, and the big green combers swept clear over her at every roll, raising merry hob. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. "No, I was not, I was very busy all day 'taking observations' every hour or two, and it was at twelve o'clock this very night that the 'comber' broke on deck." Miscellanea A comber rushed in between, swelling and hissing. Dan Merrithew It carried its fluttering blackness straight back into the white and green of a giant comber directly behind. Where the Sun Swings North As his fingers touched it a comber flung itself up out of the black and shot two feet of foam and green water across the swamped hull. Poor Man's Rock With them I seemed to reel Beneath the spin and heel When combers took them fair, Bruising their bodies, Lifting black water where Their feet clutched desperate at the floor. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country The heroism of two beach combers had saved all on board and their own manhood as well. The Ragged Edge The gray combers, however, were still disagreeably to be reckoned with. Dan Merrithew What cool shadows lurked between Those long combers pale and green! The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics In the center of the stream the water rose in long combers like those of the sea, and a distant boat with oarsmen rocked violently. The Hunters of the Hills He could but dimly see the beginning of the outstretching wall of concrete, but plainly enough he could hear the combers thundering over the crest of it. Wide Courses By sticking my head through a window I could see excellent combers of green sloshing down into the 'tweendecks. Shandygaff The rocky spurs which close in the cove were now a foaming mass over which mighty combers were hurling themselves, to the shrieking of the gale. Sweetapple Cove There were signs of a heavy swell outside, and something about "the lift of the great Cape combers" came into my head. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. The oar-blades were tipped high to avoid loss in the first comber; then the boat was buried in foam, and staggered through on the other side. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico Sometimes a heavy, quick comber would strike her on the bluff of the bow, and the shock would almost knock the men off their feet. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" With the speed of an arrow we were sucked down below the surface, and a big comber broke over our heads. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Against this helpless and partially water-logged mass the combers rushed incessantly, hiding it every few seconds with sheets of spray, and often sweeping it with deluges. Overland Instead, however, of lying beam on to the big sea, she now headed up into them, the "drag," as it is sometimes called, serving to keep her bow swung up to the threatening combers. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol Next to the mule, there is no doubt that the most beautiful machine used in the cotton trade is Heilmann's comber. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Here and there at intervals uplifted a comber taller than its fellows, standing, just as it broke, like a green wall. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest His motion was like that of a breaking comber. Alcatraz Even while Clara was crossing the deck a frothing comber deluged her to her waist, and Thurstane had all he could do to keep her from being flung into the lee scuppers. Overland The Flying Fish, however, rode the sweeping seas gallantly, breasting even the biggest combers bravely and buoyantly. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol We simply wish to record what these improvements are, and will suppose we are writing for those who have a good acquaintance with Heilmann's comber. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 And when she tried to head up into it again, one comber bigger than its fellows reared up and slapped a barrel of water inboard. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Keeping off in the intervals to fill the mainsail, and luffing into the combers, they worked their way across the dangerous stretch. The Cruise of the Dazzler The wave motion is repeated on a comber out at sea, and, to the left, against a rock on the shore. Stories from Everybody's Magazine To the home of the floods and thunder, To her pale dry healing blue — To the lift of the great Cape combers, And the smell of the baked Karroo. Verses 1889-1896 We were informed by a mill manager, who has a great number of these combers, that he meets with no inconvenience from flocking from one week end to another. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 I enclose a four-line stanza which, translating your first line—'Where the great green combers break,' etc.—strictly according to East Polynesian ballad-metres, ushers in your great theme. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse Under her port counter, a mile away, the crimson light-ship wallowed in a riot of breaking combers. The Black Bag The light was growing, and the crests of the combers gleamed a livid white. Vane of the Timberlands Flung forward, heaved aside, Witless and dazed I bide The mercy of the comber that shall end me. Verses 1889-1896 But this miserable old craft is strained in every timber, and takes in more water through the seams in her bottom than 'the combers' toss on her decks. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Seaward the crest of a roller suddenly fell with a thunderous crash, and the long white comber came roaring down upon the boat. Men, Women, and Boats The combers purred on the shining stretches of beach, and the ripples of the current whispered at the side of the vessel, and in the peace that surrounded us Riggs's hammer made a terrific clatter. The Devil's Admiral The combers came up behind her, foaming and glistening blue and green, with seamy white streaks on their hollow breasts, and broke about her with a roar. Vane of the Timberlands Her whistle shrieked above the turmoil of the sea, a light blinked in the spray, and she lurched on before the tumbling combers. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" The fog had engulfed us, but I could hear the crash of the big combers as they broke upon the rocks to the north of Avila. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch They turned their eyes from the shore to the comber and waited. Men, Women, and Boats The water that pressed her down had rolled off the deck and the oncoming comber had picked her up and was carrying her along. Lister's Great Adventure The light was growing, and he could now discern the orderly phalanxes of white-topped combers that crumbled into a chaotic spouting on the point's outer end. Vane of the Timberlands Clouds of spray swept the vessel and made it hard to see her rail where the white combers leaped. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Only for a second, however, for the next minute she would vanish in the trough of a huge comber, and then they could hear the strained towing cable "twang" like an overstretched piano wire. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic He was the son of a wool comber. A Brief History of the United States They had drifted off-shore, and now they had opened up the channel the combers leaped on board. Lister's Great Adventure The comber to windward that should have lifted her up, broke all over her, flinging the boat on deck upon the saloon skylight and pouring inches deep over the coaming into the well. Vane of the Timberlands She struck, and stopped until a comber rolled up astern. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" As the wave speeds on, and the bottom strikes the ground, the top breaks into a huge comber. The Hawaiian Archipelago Every time a comber caught her broadside, the water swept over her decks in tons of overwhelming fluid. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest To let her sheer when she crossed a comber's top would break the rope. Lister's Great Adventure They drove her remorselessly; and she swept through the combers, tilted and streaming, while the spray scourged the helmsman's face as he gazed to weather. Vane of the Timberlands Then came a line of combers, one on top of another. The Shagganappi The vessel rose on the crest of a green comber thirty feet high, and plunged with the speed of an express elevator into the valley between that wave and the next. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley Bluewater Bill kept her nose pointed right into the big combers. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest The tide had now nearly run out, but when they turned the corner at Carmel Point they would meet the flood stream and the big combers the gale drove up channel. Lister's Great Adventure The sloop was then plunging close-hauled through the vicious slate-green combers, and thin showers of spray flew all over her. Vane of the Timberlands As they reached the little wharf they were just in time to see the combers strike the canoe, to see Freddy start, then to see it capsize. The Shagganappi It came in combers, it came in level floods. Ayesha, the Return of She High were the hills when we perched momentarily on the tops of giant combers. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition She did not strike; there was another wild leap forward, a savage plunge, and a comber crashed astern. Lister's Great Adventure Carroll frowned when a comber smote the weather bow and a shower of stinging spray lashed his face. Vane of the Timberlands As they gathered for their rush through the last zone of froth, a great comber rose out of the sea behind them, rearing high above their heads. The Spoilers The beach comber had regained his feet, and in the same motion had lost his self-control. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Through the opening I could hear the combers sweeping the bow and the down-swash of the overflow striking the deck below. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women She was swept by the sparkling showers, but the showers were warm, and the combers were not often steep enough to flood her deck. Lister's Great Adventure The ripples in the cove grew to little waves, to big waves, to combers. Angel Island They were like very long ocean combers, with at intervals an abrupt break, a gap, cliff-guarded, boulder-strewn, with a narrow rushing stream making way between hemlocks and pines, sycamore, ash and beech, walnut and linden. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings A swirl of red fury swept to the beach comber's brain. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The tint is wonderful," I said, "as lucent a green as the top of the comber that is to break and overwhelm you. To Have and to Hold The combers were getting large and their hissing tops surged by some height above the gunwale, but so long as he could keep her before them they would not come on board. Lister's Great Adventure In and out of the combers they dashed, playing a desperate game of chance with Death. Angel Island For half a minute or more he lay there gasping, then looked behind him to see another comber approaching through the gloom. Benita, an African romance The beach comber grunted and writhed in sharp discomfort. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Half a mile out, where is the reef, the white-headed combers thrust suddenly skyward out of the placid turquoise-blue and come rolling in to shore. The Cruise of the Snark Oreana, drawn plunging across an Atlantic comber, was the best of the fleet, but her engineer had for some time demanded new boilers. Lister's Great Adventure Pete floated inshore on a huge comber, ran up the beach a little way and sat down. Angel Island Viewed from some safe place even the sight of these combers is terrible, as any who have watched them from this coast, or from that of the Island of Ascension, can bear witness. Benita, an African romance As far as the beach comber was concerned: it was a murder-battle now, with no question of mercy asked or given. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The force of the big comber is rather unexpected. The Cruise of the Snark To drive the canoe to windward was heavy labor, and while she lurched slowly across the combers the sun got low. Lister's Great Adventure He could fight his way out through breaking combers that would batter you and me to a jelly. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii More, we were some considerable distance from the sea which was still raging over a quarter of a mile away where great white combers struck upon a reef and spouted into the air. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot But, as the beach comber leaped up—and before he could get fairly balanced on his legs—another foot-and-palm maneuver sent him sprawling. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story A few minutes later I came charging in on a comber. The Cruise of the Snark He must keep her running and let the combers split against her pointed stern. Lister's Great Adventure Then round the swimmer, bored by struggling through the perpetual surf of family life, new combers swelled. Babbitt It was of a long, low land, a curving shore of which the ends were out of the picture, whereon grew tall palms, and where great combers broke upon gleaming sand. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot The beach comber tried now to use his freed arms to gain the grip that had once been so effective. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story How was I to stop that comber on whose back I was? The Cruise of the Snark The canoe shipped some water, and riding in on a comber's crest, narrowly missed a rock that lifted its top for a moment out of the foam. Lister's Great Adventure Here the combers, dragged by the bar underneath, crested, curled over, and fell with a roar, just as in milder weather the surf breaks on the beach. The Riverman Even as they spoke, the black tarpaulin swooped from sight behind a big comber. The Faith of Men He saw the beach comber sit up, and then, with much pain and difficulty, get swayingly to his feet. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story I looked seaward where he pointed, and saw the great smoking combers that made the breakers I had been riding look like ripples. The Cruise of the Snark Hove to under this short canvas, our decks were comparatively free of water, while the Ghost bobbed and ducked amongst the combers like a cork. The Sea Wolf Instead, with the speed of light, he stepped in, ducking the hammer-fist and plying both hands with bewildering quickness and skill, in a shower of half-arm blows at the beach comber's heart and wind. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story There was no apparent limit to the beach comber's powers of constriction. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story For hours—except during his brief encounter with the beach comber—he had been steadily on the move, and had covered a good bit of ground. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The combers are breaking now, and the boat is tossing like a cork. The Cruise of the Snark The deserted boat was in the trough of the sea, rolling drunkenly across each comber, its loose spritsail out at right angles to it and fluttering and flapping in the wind. The Sea Wolf Perceiving which, the beach comber relaxed the pressure, to let his conquered enemy slide, broken, to the ground. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story And, ruff a-bristle and teeth bared, the dog flew at the beach comber. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story He did not resent the act with snarls and a show of teeth, as in the case of the beach comber. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The beach comber, in agony of straining spine and throat, thrashed wildly to free himself. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story At any moment they were liable to be overwhelmed by the hissing combers. The Sea Wolf In his extremity, the beach comber attempted the same ruse that had been so successful for Brice. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Then, as the beach comber's limbs began to twitch and his eyelids to quiver, Brice turned away. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Yes, Bobby Burns, presumably, had learned a lesson since his interested but impersonal surveillance of Gavin's bout with the beach comber, earlier in the afternoon. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story This was the big beach comber with whom Gavin had fought barely twenty-four hours earlier. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story |
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