| 单词 | spindrift |
| 例句 | As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Together we discussed and gravely considered the relative merits of side compression straps, spindrift collars, crampon patches, load transfer differentials, air-flow channels, webbing loops, and something called the occipital cutout ratio. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "This is Odin's doing!" cried a fisherman with a big white beard that blew in the wind like spindrift. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “The blowing spindrift felt like a sandblaster or something. I could only go out for fifteen minutes at a time before I became too cold and had to return to the tent.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A 20-knot breeze raked the ridge, blowing a plume of spindrift far over the Kangshung Face, but overhead the sky was an achingly brilliant blue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Looking up, I noted the spindrift — blinding snow whipped into a frenzy by howling winds — that was sandblasting the entrance, some 20 feet above me. A Stunning Look at the Hidden Mysteries of Glacier Caves 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Together we’d calibrate the rise, as gale forces cause the edges of crest to break into spindrift.” ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Young Man and the Sea 2012-03-02T20:28:52Z While the rest of the group heads out for a swim, I excuse myself, hop off the walkway to explore the unpaved crevices, and discover a little secluded cove frothed in spindrift. Life on the Rocks 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It was only a spray, the spindrift of a wave that was a way off yet. Jordan Spieth weathers Royal Birkdale storm to take control at the Open | Andy Bull 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Improvising keeps one alive, and at the beach you can hear the surf thump if not exult in the spindrift’s curl. Feeling My Way Into Blindness 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z As so often in the Cape, it was fierce windy, a blur of sand and spindrift. The stranger and the ring - BBC News 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The battle to prevent healthy scepticism from metastasising into cancerous solipsism has typified Western philosophy since Thales of Miletus theorised that all things were but cosmic spindrift conjured momentarily from a great and watery flux. Why we banish the words of the dead 2013-12-06T16:30:06Z The powdery fresh snow on the great face of Everest was being swept along in unbroken spindrift and the very ridge where our route lay was marked out to receive its unmitigated fury. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The fjelds were white with driving snow, the sea was white with the spindrift of gale-lashed waves, when the little procession filed into the parsonage courtyard. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It seemed incredible that in the short space of five or six minutes the hitherto calm sea should have worked up into a cauldron of crested waves and flying spindrift. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z I have tossed you the spindrift Born of its fretting On its shallowest coast, But over the depths of it Bastioned in wonder And silent with fear God sits with me! Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z Weary, no longer flying, Over the hissing spindrift, through the ravelled clutching sea; No longer over the tops of the waves spinning along north-eastward, In a great irregular wedge before the trade-wind far from land. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered ’neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. A Song of the English 2011-08-16T02:00:49.063Z Up out of the hell-pit of Asia had boiled the molten flood, submerging Russia, dashing in giant waves over Germany and Austria, drenching Italy, France, England with its bloody spindrift. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Skipping from sea to sea, as light as spindrift, they assumed a fanlike formation and closed about the position where the whale had been seen. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z At present, to hand it around in the darkness, while wind and spindrift were whipping them with scorpions, was merely courting the disaster which he himself had so narrowly averted. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z A winning America didn’t cut through this vision of brown spindrift and black tides. Politicus: Clinton Asks if Obama Is 'Winning' 2010-07-12T11:20:00Z At this moment Granfa Champion himself appeared, his countenance flushed with conquest, his eyes shining in a limpid blue, his snow-white hair like spindrift round his face. Carnival We will feel the fresh wind blowing in the canvas, and the salt spindrift in our faces, and the boat going as if she were a solan flying for the rock.” Jan Vedder's Wife “But, Mither dear, there’s a wind from the north blowing in savage gusts, and the black seas tumble wild and high, and send clouds of spindrift to smother the auld boat.” Christine A Fife Fisher Girl No dense clouds of spray or spindrift intervened; hence he noticed for the first time the improvised shutters which had replaced the glass front of the structure on the seaward side. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z For that is the reason the hearts of men Are ever weary—they would abide Somewhere out of the spumy stride Of the world's spindrift—a want denied. Sea Poems In the morning the islands were not to be seen; they were hidden by belts of phantom foam, wreathed and vexed with spray and spindrift. Prisoners of Conscience Tatters of foam and spindrift swept over the deck and dashed as high as the topgallant yards. Doubloons—and the Girl Dalgetty locked moodily out at the beach and the waves and the smoking spindrift. The Sensitive Man A mist of driven froth and spindrift hung low over the surface of the water, but the great hills of the interior were distinctly visible. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Frequent squalls came down—rude bursts of wind and driving sleet that set the face of the harbour white-streaked under the lash, and shut out the near land in a shroud of wind-blown spindrift. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The winding streams of them were very like the spindrift I have seen swept in tortuous, level flight from the black waves of the mid-Atlantic by a wild sea gale. Old Plymouth Trails He could easily imagine his feelings upon being cast helplessly adrift in the midst of a raging gale, with his tried and true chums hidden from his sight by the rain and blowing spindrift. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida Faces became bronzed by the sun, wind and spindrift. 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 It was singular to watch a cloud of dust mingle with the spindrift—to note how the next breaker climbed higher in assault over the vantage ground provided by the successful sap. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The white curling crests no longer uprose, to be caught up and scattered afar in blinding spindrift. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Raw shuddering gusts whipped the sea till the ship lurched and men felt driven spindrift stinging their faces. The Valor of Cappen Varra No man hailed us; we had the breaking seas at our feet, the fresh air in our lungs, the spindrift wet upon our faces. The House Under the Sea A Romance Slowly the airplane went down to the surface of the sea, with scarcely a plume of spindrift leaping back after she had struck. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Our brows are wreathed with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. The Seven Seas Timely, the moon rose, herself invisible, but shedding a diffused light in the east, showing the high summits of the rocks, upreared above the blinding spindrift. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The front of the house faced seawards and, in bad weather, the spindrift, hurled over the cliff, drenched the windows and the rather unsightly stucco which the position of the house rendered necessary. Colorado Jim Out of a cloudless sky the red sun dropped below the flying spindrift. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good I caught sight of it at the same instant, the air having momentarily cleared somewhat of the spindrift and scud-water that had hitherto circumscribed our horizon and obscured our view. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" To catch one of these was Murphy’s aim, and often was he washed out on to the sands in a smother of spindrift, in his mad eagerness to attain his end. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers A fine spindrift settled on the farther side of the bay, so that at times their own shore was cut out from view for many moments. The Young Alaskans Look at them; they have their caps pulled down over their ears so that the gale blowing in from the sea and bringing the spindrift with it may not deafen them with its dreadful howling. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 No, before us lay the picture of the rolling deep, its long green swells breaking high in white spindrift. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive The tossing crests are blown into spindrift against the weather yardarm, while a pelting hailstorm stings the wet, cold hands and faces. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways So thick was the air with the sea spray carried along in smoking spindrifts that the Deal men lost sight of the wreck while they raced into the surf of the Brake. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands There was a tossing line of white water—the crests of the breakers flying away in spindrift like long white manes in the wind. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. And old Jake Irwin looked round, shading his eyes from the flying spindrift, to see if he could discover any trace of human being either in the sea or washed up on the beach. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess The stricken sea came over the land in clouds of spindrift,247 sand, and pebbles, and buried everything within fifty feet of the shore in shingle. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Although the hungry billows still followed the Wavecrest little water came inboard for a time save the spindrift whipped from the crests of the waves. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Clad in yellow oilskins and sou'wester, he stood by the after-companionway, intently examining through a pair of glasses the wallowing steamer to leeward, barely distinguishable in the half-light and driving spindrift. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea And the spindrift struck me in the eyes like hands full of sand. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Mr Bowles, meanwhile, was out of sight forward, hidden by the gloom and the cloud of spindrift. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific The wind yelled and raved through her rigging, and the spindrift and scud-water—showing ghostly in the phosphorescent light emitted by the tormented waters—flew over us in blinding, drenching showers. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron It grew all the while; its voice drowned the world now, and there was spindrift through it, picked from the back shore of the island and flung all the way across. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story More was coming and through the sheeting rain and spindrift the voice of the Bo’sw’n was roaring to let go the fore top-gallant halyards. The Beach of Dreams "Huh," said Mr. Boyle, and he was off again into the spindrift. The Captain of the Kansas "That fetches it to us," said Richard, most coolly; drawing his claymore when the Carolinians began to come home like spindrift ahead of the wave of red. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady And Dan laughed, and the spindrift flying like buckshot beat against his teeth. Dan Merrithew In the brimmed bath you revelled; all the floor Was swamped with spindrift; underneath the door The maddened water gushed, while strong and high Your piercing top-note staggered passers-by. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Was it for a pale rose-leaf to brave that fell wind that tore the waves into spindrift, and howled through the lonely chasms of Ben-an-Sloich? Macleod of Dare In my watch on deck at the turn of the night I saw the spindrift rise, And I saw by the thin moon's waning light The shine of dead men's eyes. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Just then the road turned the corner, and the world became a waste of wind and spindrift driving inland. The Altar Steps A dash of Miss Austen, Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Daudet; flavored perhaps with coal smoke from Indianapolis, spindrift from the Maine coast and a few twanging chords from the Princeton Glee Club. Mince Pie Captain B—— found himself struggling in the water—able to swim, but drowning, as he expressed it, with the spindrift which was hurtling into his face. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Flowers dotted it, sometimes white like bits of old ivory on the vast rug of spindrift--the pink verbena, the wild indigo, the larkspur and the wild geranium--all woven into a wondrous spangled carpet. The Covered Wagon The spindrift of fine ice had, I think, defined this halo. Hills and the Sea A heavy sea ran, and from its crests a spindrift blew which cut the face like whips, and numbed all parts of the body with its chill. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Frail as dew upon the grass Or the spindrift of the sea, Out of nothing they were fashioned And to nothing must return. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics The fire was dying, now, burned out by the fierce blast of the storm and blown away to sea in long spindrifts of spark and vapor, white as the sand-drive itself. The Flying Legion The long, peaceful swells had changed into angry, choppy waves from the tops of which the spindrift streamed in long stinging lashes. The Moon Pool It was as fresh as the top of a mountain, but mighty cold and wet, for a gusty drizzle had set in, and I got the spindrift of the big waves. Mr. Standfast He threw himself wearily down on the warm white sand, and when the great rollers swept in and crashed into noisy bellowing surf, the spindrift from it drove on him, and refreshed him luxuriously. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle On a moonlight night it was fine to sit here and watch the great breakers coming in, all marbled and clouded and rainbowed with spindrift and sheets of spray. The Blue Lagoon: a romance The Coastwise Lights Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. Verses 1889-1896 At times she was invisible; again he could catch merely the glint of her canvas, white against the dark loom of the littoral, toned by a mist of flying spindrift. The Black Bag The weather was growing worse, and I was getting more than spindrift from the seas. Mr. Standfast And the great, bearded, sinewy men, bending to the oars, and sending the boat spinning through clouds of spindrift, made it, after all, a right royal road. A Daughter of Fife He and his spear silhouetted against the spindrift and dazzling foam formed a picture savage enough, and well in keeping with the general desolation of the background. The Blue Lagoon: a romance I clung to the wooden hood, naked to the waist, and swept continually by the spindrift from the seas which met the vessel. The Devil's Admiral The crests of the waves were cut off and sprayed in fine spindrift. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 The spindrift tore asunder at length, and the watchers caught a brief glimpse of the tumbling ocean. The Iron Trail We were close to the land as the morning approached, but could see nothing of it through the snow and spindrift. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition On the 17th we left the bay, and the spindrift and the spray of the Southern Ocean, with the glorious main expanding to the skies. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Even the solid Tower rocked with it, and the sea was a waste of spindrift and low scurrying cloud. Huntingtower The wind caught up the spindrift and poured it over him in icy baths, but he was too warm from the furious exercise to mind. Cap'n Eri For sheer havoc, there is no gale like a good northwester, when it roars in, through the long winter evenings, driving the spindrift before it between the rocky walls of the fjord. The Great Hunger Their power is spent like spindrift on this shore; Thine swells yet more and more. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces My child came to me with the equinox, The wild wind blew him to my swinging door, With flakes of tawny foam from off the shore, And shivering spindrift whirled across the rocks. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Beyond the shelter of the trees the moor was a battle-ground of gusts which swept the puddles into spindrift and gave to the stagnant bog-pools the appearance of running water. Huntingtower He’s keeping his body between her an’ the spindrift till the squall has passed. The Man The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray. The Mutiny of the Elsinore This organised conspiracy on your part," the capstan gurgled, taking his cue from the mast."Organised bubbles and spindrift! The Day's Work - Part 01 She had the motion of the rose, The bird that veers across the light, The waterfall that leaps and throws Its irised spindrift to the sun. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets To jump, just to jump from the crest of an Atlantic wave, laughing in the trade wind's spindrift, down into the blue-green swirling trough! The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Any other man who didn’t know so much about swimming as he does would try to reach the lifebuoy; and would choke the two of them with the spindrift in the trying. The Man My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain. The Mutiny of the Elsinore |
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