| 单词 | backwash |
| 例句 | "Thinking like that will get you lost in the backwash of history," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In Washington and its fancy suburbs, even in Millsburg, that was OK, but Lark Creek was the backwash of fashion. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A backwash of restlessness and desire overcame him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I thought she’d wave off the raunch backwash, but she took the bottle from me and raised it to her lips. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z So, when the backwash spewed him up again, he swam out and along, and scanned the coast for some landspit that made a breakwater. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors found themselves standing in the backwash of the Buffalo as it accelerated to take off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked back to a ferry passing the Statue of Liberty now, its backwash a curving line upon the bay and three gulls swooping down behind it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The boats rolled and pitched in the violent, sucking backwash from the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon the men heaved the laden boat out on the backwash of a breaking wave, and the remainder of the stores was ferried out on the Stancomb Wills. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I had nursed my one beer, but it tasted like wheat backwash. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Then the backwash hit him, ripping him under and far out. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember police helicopters flying so low that the backwash from the rotors picked up garbage from the trash baskets, which spiraled up into the air. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In all of those places, and at every point in history, Mr. Anderson discovers the perpetual promise of new beginnings and a poisonous backwash of anomie, violence and greed. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z The spots chosen by Rickard are in the economically ravaged fringes of cities: the waste lands and desolate roads that form the constant backwash of America's broken promise. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z “Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash,” Molly Fischer writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s a TV show about the backwash of words. Perspective | Is there a right way to watch the impeachment hearings? Yes, just let it wash over you. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Shame hit, a cold backwash of elemental shame: something bad had been done to me, therefore I was bad. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z For Mailer, it was fascinating—the faces, the bodies, the voices, the sound of crowds, the décor and smell of the gathering places, the backwash, the undertones, the unconscious of the event. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z "Hell no," I replied, grabbing my cup, "I don't like backwash." There's no "tough" way to order a latte — but I'm drinking them anyway 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Then it happened, the perfect coalescence of backwash and wave. Getting dumped: the humiliating nostalgia of a beachside wipeout 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Balled-up paper towels lay in puddles of merlot, shards of pita bread sat astride spittoons of frothy backwash, and always the sound of swishing, gurgling and spitting. Night Out With | Michael Dorf: The Who Never Kept It So Kosher 2010-03-01T20:46:00Z After I vacuumed the Olympic-size pool and trudged back across the football field length of lawn, the final step was to locate the pool filter and set it to the “backwash” setting for a minute. The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Grynkewich said he was worried that Russian upgrades to Iran’s drone technology could “backwash” to Tehran, making those bomb-carrying devices even more dangerous. Top US Air Force official in Mideast worried over possible Russia-Iran ‘cooperation and collusion’ 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z "It's still the backwash of the freeze-in... the crude oil number implies that the refineries are not up and running," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho in New York. EIA data shows surprise U.S. crude stock build after winter storm 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Rather than absorbing wave energy, seawalls and riprap can create backwash that collides with incoming waves, engineers realized, setting off supercharged turbulence that chews away at shoreline protection. A ravaged Quebec coast fights climate change by retreating 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Rather than absorbing wave energy, seawalls and riprap can create backwash that collides with incoming waves, engineers realized, setting off supercharged turbulence that chews away at shoreline protection and hastens erosion of adjacent land. A ravaged Quebec coast fights climate change by retreating 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z In the interim, Britain negotiated its exit agreement with the E.U., suffered through a pandemic, and is now enduring the backwash of Europe’s energy crisis on top of soaring post-pandemic inflation. Opinion | As Britain’s productivity falls, Brexit’s promise remains unfulfilled 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Federal Reserve are all - to differing degrees - now facing a backwash from years of policy-driven but lucrative balance sheet expansion. Column: Central bank guns spiked by bank windfall backlash: Mike Dolan 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Sweden, struggling with the backwash from a surge of immigration as well as tough economic prospects, has dispensed with its center-left government. Opinion | Liz Truss’s demise, and other economic lessons from Europe 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The upward-moving water, known as the swash, pushes sediment particles along the beach, while the downward-moving water, the backwash, brings them straight back. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The beach face is where the swash of the breaking wave runs up and the backwash flows back down. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleaning regularly is important, because there will inevitably be some backwash in your rinsing apparatus after use, which can contain virus particles, bacteria, allergens or other irritants that were flushed from the nose, Lane said. How neti pots and nasal rinsing could help with that stuffy nose 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Standing in what he called “the backwash of the so-called Second Reconstruction,” Huggins, who was the W.E.B. The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z She hired an assistant who sanitizes the tables, outdoor bathroom and shower, and backwashes the pool between events. How about renting my pool for an hour or two? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The combined effects of sediment transport within the surf zone by the longshore current and sediment movement along the beach by swash and backwash is known as longshore drift. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z However, refracted waves on average approach the shoreline at somewhat of an angle creating a slight difference between the swash as it moves up the beach face and the backwash as it flows back down. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z “This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space,” Kennedy declared. Opinion | Americans should worry more about China than Russia. The new space race shows why. 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In the backwash of the pandemic’s first wave, we see the shingled ruins of the old economy, and the chance to construct a new one. How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature? | George Monbiot 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z But he said the backwash from no deal might cut into economic activity through disruption to trade and other activity. Chance of No-Deal Brexit Hampers Bank of England’s Powers of Prediction 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A longshore current develops where waves approach the shore at an angle, and swash and backwash on a beach move sediment along the shore. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The backwash for Beijing too may be unpleasant — Hong Kong is a useful channel for Chinese trade, IPOs and investment. Take Five: The Fed and the rest 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Phoenix Fire Department officials say the woman was treated for dizziness and nausea but suffered no other ill effects when the stretcher spun ever-faster in the backwash of the helicopter’s rotor blades. Rescue of injured 74-year-old hiker spins out of control 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Then there is the backwash, a powerful countervailing drain that drags back from the beach. Katie Porter’s Midterm Blue Wave Fades in Orange County 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z As of this writing, that backwash looks strong enough to check Democratic advances in the Senate and maybe even gain a couple of seats. Opinion | Will the Blue Wave collapse before it reaches the shore? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And, this is also weird, but one tester “noticed tons of my own backwash” flowing back into the beverage. Ready to kick the plastic straw habit? We tested 8 reusable options to determine which is the best. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Often the sheer drama of the narratives makes it easy to ignore some of the writing, with cringe-worthy purple moments such as: “The shame gurgled in Lester’s throat like a vile backwash.” Review | Guns — from the perspective of shooters who have used them in crimes 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Just like backwash hitting the surf, the result could be turbulent. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Republican politicians who have spent the past year eagerly wading through the slimy political backwash churned up by Trumpism will look even more foolish aping the former reality star’s attacks on the special counsel. Opinion | I asked Trump a blunt question: Do you read? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And the backwash of grief followed their paths back home. Oakland Ghost Ship fire's victims memorialized 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z At a height of 8 feet, it creates a significant backwash and presents a formidable obstacle to fish trying to migrate upstream. Grant boosts effort to dismantle Yakima’s Nelson Dam 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “We had lots of glacial activity at Mars elsewhere through time, and these large-scale features—backwash channels and streamlined bars with very large boulders—are not found in other glacially modified landscapes,” Hynek says. Tsunamis on Mars? Splashy Claim Raises Eyebrows. “This is important is because we don’t really see much in the way of evidence for a backwash phase - the tsunami didn’t go back into the ocean,” said Rodriguez. Mega-tsunamis in Mars's ancient ocean shaped planet's landscape 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In previous work4 he described the backwash channels as forming when big waves washed up on a beach and drained back down again. Giant tsunamis washed over ancient Mars 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Never mind that only a few months back, these same outlets dismissed Donald Trump as a vulgarian stooge spawned from the cultural backwash that pollutes our reality-TV culture. Joe: Don’t cry for us, we aren’t Argentina 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The digital economy will bring "bewildering" changes, he says, creating its own "backwash" of disruption. Geldof from rock star to tech entrepreneur - BBC News 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The Crimson Tide looked like backwash only days ago after a home loss to Mississippi in which fans left early from Bryant-Denny Stadium. Alabama and Florida are weekend winners, but staying idle also can pay 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z On a summer’s day, from even a little distance, the sea appears placid, but up close, it huffs and woofs like something alive as it crashes against the rocks, backwash foaming white. Fleeing Syria: An Unwelcoming World 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z This explains the waves you saw when the ROV broke the surface or disturbed it with backwash from its thrusters. Playing in a Deep-Sea Brine Pool Is Fun, as Long as You're an ROV [Video] 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z They also were caught in the backwash of a rebellion against the prices and services of cable television. Dodgers-- High Stakes Television Insanity in L.A. 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But “when the tide recedes, the backwash is likely to be vicious.” Here's Why China's Stock Rally Will End in Tears 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Bahari is familiar with revolution and its murky, often violent backwash; his father was imprisoned by the Shah in the 1950s, his sister by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1980s. God Damn You, Mr. Rosewater It says that modular assessment is not necessarily easier, finding that "high stakes end-of-course examinations" risk "backwash effects", such as narrowing the curriculum and teaching to the test. 'Hard exams may not boost standards' 2013-05-08T17:06:55Z A Reuters poll of economists found 44 of 55 thought Italy's turmoil made it more likely the ECB would deploy its bond-buying artillery but with Spain - caught up in Italy's backwash - the more likely recipient. Analysis: Italy election punches hole in ECB's euro defenses 2013-02-28T14:17:20Z These layers were probably formed during past tsunami, when sediments were eroded from the beach and then transported by the backwash currents into the bay. December 28, 1908: The Tsunami of Messina 2012-12-28T20:45:03.683Z The sediments of the uprush and backwash currents of a tsunami, consisting of thick sand layers, are described by this post at the “Trough The Sandglass” blog. Tsunami in the Geological Record 2012-12-26T23:45:00.200Z And the movie provided the perfect foil for those tensions, many of which had erupted in the backwash of the old dictatorships. Political Battles in Tunisia Shade Attacks on U.S. Embassy 2012-09-16T22:35:24Z A great backwash of enthusiasm from the Olympics will carry the Paralympics triumphantly through the opening ceremony on Wednesday night. Paralympics: world of possibility 2012-08-28T20:52:35Z The policy backwash is affecting even Britain, this week told it faces triple-dip recession, whatever that is. Eurozone crisis: the bankers are happy to play Nero as Europe burns 2012-07-31T20:00:01Z Now we are in the patriotic backwash, as journalists watch people doing the same thing at the same time and attempt to analyse it, which is futile because it is so simple. London 2012: welcome to the Idiot Games, where our leaders do battle 2012-07-27T19:00:00Z After spending most of his career swimming in Phelps's backwash, Lochte is now the pacesetter, regularly beating his rival in a range of events. London 2012 Olympics trials: Michael Phelps mastered by Ryan Lochte again 2012-06-26T07:50:48Z They at the rope were swept out by the backwash to meet them.... Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Caught by the backwash of the revolving screws, he was swept past the side like a cork in a mountain torrent, until one of the men on the Calder's fore-bridge threw him a rope. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Such problems create a backwash over the years; I see now that on my circuit I avoided home very frequently, staying away two or three weeks at a time. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Then the gig's white hull appeared indistinctly among the streaks of foam, and he plunged into the backwash as a wave recoiled. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The rotenone was mixed with water and applied by hand, or into the backwash of an outboard motor. Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas 2011-10-15T02:00:26.927Z That night we slipped forrard on to the focsle head, and stood leaning on the stem head, watching her sharp cutwater shearing along and admiring the play of phosphorescence in the backwash. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The US is far enough away, and strong enough, to insulate itself against the backwash. Stuck in the past 2011-05-25T23:04:34Z Yet they are caught in the backwash of an anti-American rhetoric they help create. The Double Mirror 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z Appleby, scrambling out of the backwash, stood up, dripping, breathless, and aching all over, and saw Harper not far away and a host of dusky figures flitting about the fire. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Within months of taking office, Truman invited Hoover to the White House to discuss a subject about which the ex-president was still master -- feeding the starving in the backwash of war. The fight that just won't die 2011-04-10T15:01:00Z By the backwash, it must be making for the dock and stair; the men in it, or one of them, for the Court. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z By the backwash it must be making for the dock and stair; the men in it, or one of them, for the Court. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Rounding a bend of the stream, she glimpsed a shining blue bottle caught in the backwash of a fallen log. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z She took her cup of tea and sat up in bed, forgetting everything except the backwash of her great amusement. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z She was docked here by a backwash which does not occur very often, judging by the herbage growing among the sand. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z This was the backwash, I thought, of Dolly's German outbreak the other day, and Siegfried was going at last to be explained to me. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z They swung from the eddy below the falls and shot into the backwash of the river as it swept converging toward the first grim rocks that shouldered the current to a rippling wedge of white. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Early this morning, in the backwash of my slumber, that prehistoric-looking fish I once saw in the Seine suddenly finned into my dreams. Dreams of Paris 2010-05-22T11:19:00Z Friday was duly dominated by the backwash of the latest leadership debate. Election 2010: Weekend off? Dream on 2010-04-24T05:00:00Z It was feasible, with care, to climb down to sea level, but the huge rollers breaking over the reef sent a heavy backwash against the cliff. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z I thought they'd gone beyond our hearing, but when they got into the swirl of the backwash at the foot of the cliffs they must have overturned. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne The moaning of their lamentation was as the sound of the surf wailing on the shore, and their sobbing as the cry of the grinding pebbles in the backwash of the tide. The Great Discovery Nor do we like bloodshed or the political reaction and the backwash of barbarism that wars entail. American World Policies It was a mere backwash of his thought, as he drew the question out to a solution—nothing more. Helena Brett's Career Therefore, an ideal backwash is set up, which accounts for all the wreckage strewed on the beach. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z It has done good without any backwash of evil. The Romance of the Reaper And suddenly the yacht lurched over shuddering in the backwash of some tremendous energy. The Legion of Lazarus The domestic adult is in a sort of backwash. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Rick waited until the vinta was on the downward slope of the backwash from the shore, then went in headfirst. The Pirates of Shan It was inviting, secluded, an upholstered backwash in the stream of fashion; so he sat there, nearly stunned a waiter by asking for a glass of water, and composed himself to read his letters. The Silent Barrier That short thoroughfare forms, as it were, a backwash for the traffic of Piccadilly. Cynthia's Chauffeur His book depicts for us this evolutionary flux of instincts and ideas, an irresistible current in which there is never a backwash. The Forerunners Forward went the stick and he plunged down the backwash of Larkin’s diving plane, his motor roaring its cadenced challenge. Aces Up Before there was time for panic, a current that rushed between rocks threw the vessel into a deep pool of backwash; and there she lay till morning. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters The row of canoes swung towards the bank, but the backwash caught them and it looked as if they would not swing far enough. Partners of the Out-Trail The craft yielded to the impulse and drove lurching among the backwash. Lorimer of the Northwest When clean little lives, when clean little souls boil up in the backwash, they will consolidate, after the final war, into a peace that shall endure. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Nearer and nearer the whale was driven, while the captain of the ship did his utmost to keep away so as not to be struck by the backwash. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends We are here to see that you never go out'; and there was a nasty clutch to the backwash of the billows smashing down from those rocks. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters They must drive her in before the backwash flung her off, and for some moments he labored with weakening arms and heaving chest. Partners of the Out-Trail Then I whipped out my knife again, and with a few vigorous strokes I cut the rope clean through, and felt my boat go swirling away on the backwash. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Immediately after the ceremony of repayment was completed, the backwash of investment began to roll in, and by the evening the promoter counted more than a thousand dollars in his hip pocket treasury. Lady Luck The backwash of civilization in the Orient is not our concern. Peking Dust At that season the river had sunk into its narrowest bed, and there were backwashes and sluggish channels full of light-green tinted water. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Some hundreds of natives and the white trader were on the look out, and ran in and caught us before the backwash carried us out again. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 By examining the things cast up in the backwash, we can gauge the progress of humanity. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse As the backwash leaves the sands bare, these bivalves may be seen in thick but irregular patches protruding from the sand. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 There's not a corner where you don't feel the backwash of a storm of some sort. The Privet Hedge The water is not deep enough to drown him yet, if he is not carried away by the backwash.' Chatterbox, 1906 It was little enough to ask for—a return to old values, old relationships, the normalcies of the backwash instead of the freneticisms of the lime-light. The First One There are many little lives foaming up in the backwash. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Time, like a slow whirlpool churned it over into sight and out of sight, like a mass of dead sea-weed in a backwash. The Lost Girl The radiant backwash of the headlights revealed them to be both green and gray. The Servant Problem There was a log craft at the surf edge, with a kid playing beside it, his reflection perfect in the long backwash. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The backwash tugs at his boots, hollowing out little channels under his feet. Pipefuls Two men were in it, paddling sturdily, taking advantage of eddies and backwash. Joan of Arc of the North Woods I wish to God I could live my life upon the flute, for there I'm on the best and cleanest terms with myself, and no backwash of penitence. Doom Castle On April 22nd, we experienced a little of the backwash of the first Hun gas attack against the French and Canadians in the Ypres Salient a few miles North of us. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion The guard was overwhelmed, caught in the backwash, and swirled somewhere, anywhere, out of sight and knowledge. Here are Ladies A rough surface loomed up before him, and he threw himself in that direction, embracing a rock, striving to cling through the backwash of the wave which had brought him there. Key Out of Time The cab took off with a rush that left Feldman in a backwash of slush and mud. Badge of Infamy An instant after Jesus was gone, anger again came over the men like the backwash from an ocean wave. Men Called Him Master As the doctor and his daughter walked away the shyness of the young men returned upon them in a heavy backwash. The Emigrant Trail A large piece broke off the already small pan, and what was left swung round in the backwash, and started right out to sea. Adrift on an Ice-Pan Somewhere on the route, owing to a kind of backwash of the surging people, Ralph Bastin and the Secretary of the Church had become separated. The Mark of the Beast He got ready for a jump; the boat lifted, and he sprang; the backwash pushed her out, and the man's left foot only just touched the gunwale. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Then the backwash came so strong from the bay, we had to wait till the floods settled. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Susan slid from her perch, feeling a sudden apathy, not only as from a tension snapped, but as the result of a backwash of disillusion. The Emigrant Trail Men were standing in the backwash of the French Revolution. Among Famous Books Who of us that witnessed the crazy gold stampede to Kootenay and the crazier stampede to Klondike could guess that the backwash of those foolish tidal waves of gold-mad humanity would people the Northwest? The Canadian Commonwealth When Four-Pound-the-Second reached the yard with his three satellites twenty minutes later, the backwash of the crowd still eddied and swirled about the entrance. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Round them the backwash of waves seethed white and hissing. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Johnny, with his head bent low against the backwash of dust, looked at Mary V. Words were useless, worse than inadequate. Skyrider There were two rowboats trolling outside the heavy backwash from the cliffs. Poor Man's Rock He saw the backwash of disappointed gold seekers. The Canadian Commonwealth Thomas Henry Huxley was born ten years after Waterloo, while the country was still in the backwash of the long-drawn Napoleonic wars. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch He could be seen casting the lee main braces off the pins while the backwash of waves splashed over him.—"Square the main yard!" he shouted up to us—who stared at him in wonder. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle So huge a splash did the vast rock give, that the sea heaved up and the backwash of the water drove the ship right to the shore. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) He rose, opened the door, and stood without, listening for a little while to the roaring of the surf and the crash of the broken coral swept from reef and shore by the backwash. The Wings of the Morning But every tide has its backwash; and it so happened that the Cambuscan held as many second and third-class passengers as she could stow. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales I think it is certain the Crest-Wave, —a backwash of it, a little portion of it, but enough to make life hum and the age important,—was among the Welsh between 410 and 542. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 "Well, yes—if you must know," Cai answered sullenly, his wrath checked by confusion, much as the onset of a tall wave is smothered as it meets a backwash. Hocken and Hunken Outside the furious mid-stream rush of the current, dark eddies revolved in angry circles and their backwash weltered along the bank. The Lure of the North But they are highly entertaining to read because they so faithfully mirror the backwash of romanticism. Shandygaff He wormed his way under the ropes, he edged and insinuated himself between the idle and good-natured onlookers, with Cosgrave, tossed and buffeted, but still in tow, struggling in the backwash. The Dark House And first to that most tantalizing of human regions, India; where you would expect something just now from the cyclic backwash. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He had the address of Merle's apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, and made his way there on foot through streets crowded with the war's backwash. The Wrong Twin They were very near the man in the water and when he spun round like a cork in the revolving backwash the moonlight touched his wet face. The Lure of the North I had seen much of the backwash and the wretched aftermath of war. A Minstrel in France This time a crowd of natives rushed into the foam and, clinging to the gunwale, held us steady against the backwash. Essays in Rebellion From that front we were hurried down to Cambrai in support, but came in only for the last backwash of that singular battle. Mr. Standfast They had not the air of the backwash of a conquering army. Greenmantle And Captain Whalley seemed to be swept out of the great avenue by the swirl of a mental backwash. The End of the Tether Within this slice of the town, indeed, life is lived, as it were, in a stagnant backwash, which nothing and nobody can stir. The Orange-Yellow Diamond The retreating wave revealed once more the slight girl-figure, spent and effortless this time, tossing impotently in the churning backwash. The Vision of Desire Neither am I. It is but the backwash of a wave ... The Path to Rome How often we were near our deaths I cannot think, but time and time again the backwash of a breaker came over our rail in a green mass. Jim Davis The incident of the murdered Swede is just part of the backwash of it all, but it is an illuminating fragment. Men, Women, and Boats Broad currents of thought go on their way without being deflected by backwashes, or eddies or spurts into blind passages. Prisoner for Blasphemy "Give it a twist round your arm," Malcolm shouted, "or the backwash will tear you from it." Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden A wave of missionary zeal from Rome and a backwash from unconquered Ireland had met at the synod of Whitby in 664, and Roman priests recovered what Roman soldiers had lost. The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution I climbed out of the backwash of the last breaker, and dipped down behind a rock, high and dry on the sands. Jim Davis Just after 6 p.m., in the dark, as the boat was in the yeasty backwash from the seas flung from this iron-bound coast, then, just when things looked their worst, they changed for the best. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition There it was met by a backwash of the vines which embowered the cabins, by a stream of blossoms which flooded and cascaded down their sides. Angel Island Left alone, an awkward pause ensued between Davilof and Magda, backwash of the obvious clash of antagonism between the two men. The Lamp of Fate We were starting early to see the opening of the battle and its backwash. Now It Can Be Told The backwash drew him with it into deeper water, where he lay helpless and despairing, for he no longer had any strength to struggle against his doom. Benita, an African romance Some of us scrambled up the beach through the fringe of the surf and slipped the painter round a rock, so as to hold the boat against the backwash. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history. War and Peace In spite of the stationary eddies or momentary backwashes we observe here and there, its stream moves in a definite direction, ever swelling and broadening. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson She dug in with raw and bleeding hands and feet and clawed against the backwash until she was beyond the reach of the waves. South Sea Tales Every time I essayed to plant my legs on the beach, the irresistible backwash swept me down, rolling me head over heels, and in my exhausted condition this filled me with despair. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont And with brain reeling from weakness I was able to crawl and scramble farther up beyond the clutching backwash of the sea. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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